As a developer, my work machine is a Macbook, but I often need to debug R problems on other platforms. Over the years, I have been using tools like VirtualBox and VMware to install different operating systems and run them on my Macbook. I noticed that Windows on VMware required more and more memory. I have 16Gb memory in total and must give VMware at least 10Gb to run Windows. I’m not sure if I should blame it on VMware or Windows, but this definitely slows down my computer when I start up the virtual machine.

One or two years ago, I found the Github action <a href=“https://github. …