Parallels Desktop is brilliant

Please, set up a different thread if you wish to debate merits of various solutions. Muddying the purpose of this thread reduces its value. We're attempting to problem solve rather than introduce problems in that pursuit.

Mods, soft bans or muting disruptive users on threads might be useful when they are not adding to the conversation. It's not a good solution, but might stop such threads devolving into silly little spats, which most of us are not here for.

This thread was definitely not created to problem-solve, as you can easily tell from its title and original post. It was created to praise a virtualization software solution, so comments countering that praise are totally on-topic, and making personal attacks, attempting to brigade, or attempting to get someone banned for not liking their opinions is totally over the line in my opinion.

I had heard about parallels desktop when they first started. Not sure if I would use this due to comments reported, however, I've thought of trying parallels however I would be afraid I would not want, all of a sudden that a local account would change to something that it remembered in previous years to in facat act as a local account such as those of windowsand also concerned about privacy and hoping i either get something that wasn't finnicky like posts mentioned or switch to Linux on another virtual machine, not sure yet. I just want my privacy back

Of course I would love to beta test parallels desktop if it was meant for pc virtual machines and chrome books, and yes I would want improve it in a way where you can access bios,have more fail safes for recovery, and I would actually make scripts for them

If you mean Parallels as far as privacy; you don't have to sign in, you can activate it if you put in your key as far as I know without signing in. If you where referring to windows which at least that's how I read it do to the mention of local accounts... That's, not the fault of parallels, that's completely on microsoft and yeah, even in that case you can still make a local account. Sign in to windows with your ms account to begin with, then once on desktop just, go to accounts and sign out; that'll give you a local account. Honestly I don't remember if it was like that or if you had to make a new account as its been a while since i've done it, about 4, 6 months but its definitely duable.