I tried re-installing vmware player but, no difference. I'm not a programmer so need explicit direction what to input, preferably via copy-paste into terminal.

I thought I was onto something when two times running I was able to start the VM without problem, then. I thought it may be the NVIDIA drivers so I switched to the Xorg (Wayland doesn't appear as an option with my device, an Acer Aspire F15 F5-572G-70FJ). Usually Windows will boot successfully after 2-3 attempts but, this is annoying the crap out of me due to the amount of wasted productivity. I've tried leaving it but, 20 minutes later still frozen. Now the VM frequently causes the entire system to freeze, usually at boot or shortly after entering my user login password, forcing a hard reset because in most instances CTRL + ALT + DEL doesn't work, ALT + F2 doesn't work and probably 8/10 times ALT + PrtScrn + REISUB doesn't work either. Then I intermittently got the blue screen of death in the VM and had to restart the VM.

When I upgraded from Ubuntu 20.1 to Ubuntu 21.04, there were initially no issues.

I set up a VM for Windows 10 (200GB total space). ABBYY Fine Reader and OneNote (the online version and electron Linux version is still no match for the desktop version, which offers more features).Īfter a trial period, I felt confident enough with Ubuntu that I erased and reformatted my hard drive entirely and installed Ubuntu. I'm a relatively new convert from Windows but there are still some applications that I use for work that don't have a straightforward alternative in Linux, e.g.

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