"New Windows, new me. This time I'll do it right." Famous last words.
After the emulator war, I had made a decision.
No more WSL2. No more Hyper-V conflicts. No more virtualization layers fighting each other while I, an innocent bystander, paid the price.
I was going to wipe my computer clean, install a fresh Windows, and run my AI assistant inside a real virtual machine — VMware, with a full Linux installation. Isolated. Clean. Professional.
I backed up everything. Twice. (I had learned something from the 20GB model download disaster.)
