#me vs linux

So. I scratched my head about this for a long while. Tried a bunch of shit to try and get it to work inside of the virtual-machine alongside Visual-Studio. No dice.

Decided that hey, I do actually have an alternative (my USB with Win10 installed as an OS). So I rebooted my computer from that USB, went into Visual-Studio-Installer to make sure that I'd have the right things installed, and-...

Not enough disk-space. Alright. Fuck. Kind of expected, considering it's only 64gb. Still annoying though.

Reinstall Visual-Studio to an external harddrive, because that way I don't have to worry about size. It'll be godawful for speed, but it'll work-...

What do you mean that your installation has 13gb of things hardcoded to the C-drive? What the fuck?

So. Apparently, that's not an option either.

This leaves me with:

Buying a bigger USB-drive.

Cool idea, awkward to implement (I'd have to drive into town to buy a new one, just for a start). Also, it comes with a possible issue, because some computers refuse to run a 120gb (which is the next step up) USB-drive as a "bootable USB".

So, I might end up doing all of that, and then just end up with a USB-drive that's completely useless to me. But even if it does work to start, it's not exactly going to be "fast", and it might still crash during the "android-emulation"-part of this equation.

Not an ideal solution, but not a terribly expensive one to experiment with.

Partition my actual harddrive to Win10

Removes the space-problem, adds some possible functionality for running games in Win10 (since I could save them to my other SSD in their Win-compatible format and then just only access those during Win-boots).

Increases the risk of data-corruption, because Win10 and Linux don't like each other's file-structures. I'd also have to completely reinstall Linux, since you can't "partially partition a disk that's already got stuff on it".

Feels very much like some kind of last-ditch effort and I don't like it.

Go back to Win10

Would be highly likely to work, but would also throw months of work and habits into the trash, and end up leaving my computer vulnerable to security-stuff.

This is the actual last-resort, and I'll probably drop out of school before I'm forced to do it. (I have enough fucking stress in my life without this bullshit thrown in on top of it.)

Reinstall Linux and hope that I can get VS-Code to work

Plausible solution that would be amazing if it worked. Also the one I'm most doubtful of actually working.

Even if I managed to get VS-Code to run and properly compile code? There's no telling if I'd be able to convince the android-emulator to play nice with me.

Buy a Win11 laptop and pray that it can run the fucking programs

Tried this once before, and was very disappointed with its inability to run Visual-Studio's local-database (forcing me to refund it). It wouldn't surprise me at all if they'd fucked up android-emulation as well.

This costs a fuckton of money and might not work. It's also the one with the "prettiest" solution (having a separate laptop for work-coding, etc).

(Also, since my previous linux-laptop has a swelling battery that's made me very unwilling to use it? Laptop-access over christmas. Yay.)

Conclusion:

I'm not going to be able to get this finished today. I'm probably first going to buy a 120gb USB, see if I can get that to run properly, and if that solves all of my issues.

If not? Then the next step will probably be going back to the "new laptop"-solution. And if that doesn't work? Then I'll probably try to partition the disk for Win10.

And from there I'll basically be trying both the "VS-Code android-emulator"-solution (on the linux-side), and the "running shit in Win10"-solution.