Greetings everyone,

Please excuse my ignorance if this has been brought up before. I used search function, alas that didn't yield any desired results.

I am seriously considering buying a Macbook Pro this year. There are many reasons behind this, but it's not the point.
I am a beginner programmer. Well, not even that - I am just touching the basics. I do however have a good grasp of computers, so I can catch up rather easy, at least with things explained in the first batch of the HH episodes on YouTube.

I do have a Windows machine, but I plan on using MBP a lot, and I was thinking if following the series on Windows 10, using Desktop Parallels, would be the same as on a native Windows machine, this is asuming the low level stuff in the course curriculum, so to speak. I know there are limitations that come with VMs, hence my concerns that I might miss crucial (or even the tiniest!) parts.
Would it be any different were I to install W10 using BootCamp?

Please help out a fellow beginner, eager to learn.
Thank you in advance for your time and help.

Regards,
-- JC

I am on a MacBook Pro. The issue with Parallels is debugging your code. Visual Studio uses some instructions that aren't always virtualized correctly. VMWare Fusion has a setting to handle it correctly, but its not enabled by default due to it being slower than without that emulation. BootCamp is a better option in this instance.

Both Parallels and Fusion allow you to virtualize the Bootcamp partition, so it will give you the most options.

Hey there,

So, basically, it is actually possible to follow this course on a macOS machine without too much hassle. This is great news!

Thanks again and have a lovely day!