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I fully support the idea of containers or virtual machines.
My VMs run on ESXi and I GHOST their images to a file server.
These are great sandboxes and excellent for work that doesn't require high end GPU or dual monitors.
Each compiler runs on its own VM, same as Turbo Tax and others that I don't want on my main workstation.
Restoring the VM from an image is easy-peasy and quick.
I was lazy when I was forced to migrate from Win7 to Win10, so I took the in-place upgrade.
A fresh install of Win10 with my complicated environment is one I wanted to avoid due to length of down time.
In retrospect, it would be a WHOLE lot cleaner with a fresh install instead of the upgrade.
Win10 installed just fine, but there was a ton of old Win7 baggage accumulated over the 10 years it ran on my workstation.
My VMs run on ESXi and I GHOST their images to a file server.
These are great sandboxes and excellent for work that doesn't require high end GPU or dual monitors.
Each compiler runs on its own VM, same as Turbo Tax and others that I don't want on my main workstation.
Restoring the VM from an image is easy-peasy and quick.
I was lazy when I was forced to migrate from Win7 to Win10, so I took the in-place upgrade.
A fresh install of Win10 with my complicated environment is one I wanted to avoid due to length of down time.
In retrospect, it would be a WHOLE lot cleaner with a fresh install instead of the upgrade.
Win10 installed just fine, but there was a ton of old Win7 baggage accumulated over the 10 years it ran on my workstation.