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- Windows 11 Pro + Win11 Canary VM.
You have just replied to a year old post!Hello, hope you have success with all your endeavors. If you have good internet speeds as an alternative, you could use a secondary device like a laptop (I have a Steamdeck device formatted with a Windows 11 OS) and use Windows Remote Desktop Connection with just ALT + TAB between your Work and Games so to speak. I am quite impressed with the Remote Desktop Connection which is the built-in windows program. I am not referring to the Microsoft Remote Desktop App available on the app store and what, not. Those are to put it frankly, crap... they have weird screen resolution scalings and funny stuff, and a mess to connect and manage but if you can manage it good for you. But I am referring to using the 'old school' Remote Desktop Connection from Windows Pro (You'll need Pro I guess) The flow is just seamless and the latency for your 'work' environment is just great. I have my gaming setup on my performance PC and my Windows work environment on my Steamdeck (and some games cause it's on my Steamdeck so I can just unplug it on the go and play remotely when I am not stationed but it's religiously set apart from my work stuff) I can imagine a laptop shall work in this instance as well. I have them set up and connected to the same network. I just log into my Secondary OS so to speak with Remote Desktop Connection on my Performance PC and the whole Secondary OS runs in a Window that I can just switch through at ease using ALT + TAB. It's awesome quality, fullscreen and I can unpin the menubar. I can't even tell which OS I am using! so seamless it feels for argument's sake. This is only an alternative but I quite like this ecosystem.
My Computer
At a glance
Windows 11 Pro + Win11 Canary VM.I9 13th gen i9-13900H 2.60 GHZ16 GB solderedIntegrated Intel Iris XE
- OS
- Windows 11 Pro + Win11 Canary VM.
- Computer type
- Laptop
- Manufacturer/Model
- ASUS Zenbook 14
- CPU
- I9 13th gen i9-13900H 2.60 GHZ
- Motherboard
- Yep, Laptop has one.
- Memory
- 16 GB soldered
- Graphics Card(s)
- Integrated Intel Iris XE
- Sound Card
- Realtek built in
- Monitor(s) Displays
- laptop OLED screen
- Screen Resolution
- 2880x1800 touchscreen
- Hard Drives
- 1 TB NVME SSD (only weakness is only one slot)
- PSU
- Internal + 65W thunderbolt USB4 charger
- Case
- Yep, got one
- Cooling
- Stella Artois (UK pint cans - 568 ml) - extra cost.
- Keyboard
- Built in UK keybd
- Mouse
- Bluetooth , wireless dongled, wired
- Internet Speed
- 900 mbs (ethernet), wifi 6 typical 350-450 mb/s both up and down
- Browser
- Edge
- Antivirus
- Defender
- Other Info
- TPM 2.0, 2xUSB4 thunderbolt, 1xUsb3 (usb a), 1xUsb-c, hdmi out, 3.5 mm audio out/in combo, ASUS backlit trackpad (inc. switchable number pad)
Macrium Reflect Home V8
Office 365 Family (6 users each 1TB onedrive space)
Hyper-V (a vm runs almost as fast as my older laptop)




