[fortran77]

I buy a $100 Windows 11 Pro licence, and my limit is 1024 VMs

Hyper‑V on Windows 11 supports up to 1024 simultaneous VMs per host if the hardware can handle it. On my little Windows ARM laptop I can easily run 4 VMs before it runs out of steam.

[oxfeed65261]

On Mac, you can run lots of Windows/Linux VMs and two Mac VMs.

On Windows, you can run lots of Windows/Linux VMs and zero Mac VMs.

[leptons]

I've run MacOS x86 VMs on Windows, it used to work great for a while. I haven't done that lately. I just don't care that much about supporting Apple users anymore, Apple makes it too expensive and difficult.

[ChoGGi]

> zero Mac VMs.

Legally (the last time I checked)

[kylec]

The limit of 2 is just for virtualizing macOS. You can run as many Linux VMs as you want at once on macOS.

[fortran77]

There's first class support for Linux on Windows, and Microsoft has a developers VM available for download so you can run as many Windows as you want. I do a Hyper-V Quick Create and there are three flavors of Linux to choose from, or Windows, with all the development tools pre-installed.

[colechristensen]

The only reason Linux exists on Windows is they're trying to redo the 90s playbook of dominating then destroying the competition. I was almost on board in the Windows 10 era, switching a whole lot of my time to doing things in WSL on Windows.

Windows 11 and the walled garden greed they're trying to enable is so bad that this dominating Linux attempt is certainly failing, the only reason I haven't completely ditched my Windows system is that my several TB external drive is at large and I haven't taken the time to actually do it.

Plus Steam and their Wine work is absolutely killing it so the one thing that was keeping me motivated to still have a Windows presence is pretty much gone.

[lxgr]

But you can’t run 1024 copies of that one license. This is what this limit is actually about.