Based on our record, Hyper-V seems to be a lot more popular than Flox. While we know about 21 links to Hyper-V, we've tracked only 2 mentions of Flox. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
I ran the following command based on this guide: Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -Online -FeatureName Microsoft-Hyper-V -All. Source: almost 2 years ago
Also, you can enable Hyper-V on windows under KVM then all but the most paranoid games (e.g. Valorant) will run. Source: almost 2 years ago
Hyper-V needs to be enabled - link Note, Hyper-V is not available on Home Edition. Source: about 2 years ago
VMware Workstation Player is a good free option, there's also Hyper-V which is built into Windows. Source: about 2 years ago
Hyper-V is more a Windows feature https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/hyper-v-on-windows/quick-start/enable-hyper-v and can be uninstalled from optional features. Source: about 2 years ago
Flox is the best thing I know of for articulating binary dependencies (language runtimes, etc.), which is probably the sweet spot for nix anyways at the moment. Flox uses nix for its backend, but has a simple TOML syntax and is properly humble about what it can do -- but killer at it -- as opposed to promising the world. https://flox.dev. - Source: Hacker News / 15 days ago
Nix and NixOS are in something like the state git was in before GitHub: the fundamental idea is based on more serious computer science than the status quo (SVN, Docker), the plumbing still has some issues but isn’t worse, and the porcelain and docs are just not there for mainstream adoption. I think that might have changed with the release of flox: https://flox.dev, it’s basically seamless (and that’s not... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
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