Guys anyone tried running windows on their Mac? I'm thinking whether to buy VMware fusion or just dual boot using Apples Boot Camp?

Dual boot works fine with Bootcamp Assistant

Sure.. First time handling a VM. I'll need to buy a windows license for every VM I run right?

You can download a Windows version here https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines

@crooked-activity-79384 Been running Windows on my Mac for years. For a couple, that was my primary OS. Nowadays, use it mostly for games 😕 and the odd .Net project (and bulk printing). I have it on dual boot and performance is quite good. Friends have used it on VMWare and performance has been laggy on older machines. I have never lost data due to partitioning of the hdd for installing Windows and then re-installing, etc. Just make sure you are careful and have plenty of free buffer space. Let me know if you have any further questions.

If you are going the VM route .... I have found parallels.com to be quite good for Windows

@crooked-activity-79384: Why would you want windows running on a VM when you can dual-boot using bootcamp assistant? I've been using the dual-boot setup for a couple of years now. Windows (with WSL2) is my primary dev environment. Multiple linux distros enabled on WSL2. Docker for desktop with WSL2 backend also enabled. In fact, I hardly ever use MacOS. So basically this now a windows machine with a very, very good trackpad 😀

@magnificent-solstice-42554 that's my question. Whether to dual or go the VM route. From the answers I'm in favor of dual boot itself. @loud-glass-33663 will definitely reach out. I need windows to run my favorite games and also "Tally" :( The biggest let down was knowing GTA 5 doesn't run on Mac and then Borderlands 3 running with crazy lag. I don't do any development though I'm interested in no code development tools. Yet to start exploring.. Thanks @ancient-van-29120 will check that out as well @abundant-jackal-54634 looks like I'm going the dual boot way so only extra cost will be on the Win 10 license

@crooked-activity-79384 Yeah you can revert back to single boot system, Also I will recommend to use

rEFInd

as your bootloader

@crooked-activity-79384 Forgot to mention one thing. If you already have a licence for Windows 7 onwards, you can use that instead of purchasing a new one. You install Windows 10 (free download from MS website) and then when time comes to key in the licence code, putting in your old Windows licences (7 onwards) still works. A couple of weeks ago, I installed Win10 on my new Macbook and used an old Win7 Pro licence I had lying with me.