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After some 12 years, I had to set up a new machine for my own use. I bought a reconditioned HP with around 16Gb RAM, 500Gb SSD. It came with a Windows OS, which I was going to wipe out. However, for various reasons (mainly some wonderful animation apps I use in teaching which require Mac or Windows only and need access to the sound system) I decided to keep the Windows host. First off, I decided to install my development machine under Vagrant/VirtualBox. I’m still fighting with VirtualBox (can’t get USB ext3 drives recognised, can’t get the sound working) and may end up having to dual boot. But apart from that, everything is wonderful. I suppose there’s a very minor inconvenience in having to logon to two computers (one real, one virtual) but that’s less hassle than dual booting.