If you have the hardware for it, VFIO setups can be amazing. I've been running graphics accelerated Windows inside a VM for a few months now, and apart for some random crashes, it's perfect.

I've been using Capture One (lightroom alternative) and Affinity Photo 2 inside the VM and it's been great.

Haven't really tried video editing, but it might not be as great.

How exactly does graphic acceleration work when you run a VM? Do you need two graphic cards (one for the host, another for the guest)?

Edit: to contribute a little to the grandparent question - I have Windows on QEMU for the Office suite and it works pretty smoothly. I had to make some config changes, most of them outlined in these reddit threads:

https://www.reddit.com/r/qemu_kvm/comments/18z8609/qemu_wind...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ChromeOSFlex/comments/ucno4b/qemukv...

I also disabled animations in Windows settings because everything felt clunky.

No crashes, clipboard and shared folders work fine after installing guest tools.

Very good info, I am also planning to set something up over QEMU.

I had a similar journey.

I started by having my files on hard drives and transporting them wherever I went. Everything was local. I ran cyanogenmod on my phone and tinkered to customize all my devices to my exact needs.

Then came a time where I pushed it all to the cloud. Gmail, maps, onedrive,Netflix, Philipps Hue, Chromecasts, official android ROMs.

In the past year, I've moved back. Data is on a NAS, I buy mp3s and Blu-rays to put them on Plex. Home-Assistant has taken over my home and I'm back with LineageOS. I'm happier this way. Everything takes more time to setup, but I can do things I couldn't before and I'm free from anything becoming discontinued.

Compared to when I started, it's become so much easier to do things your way.

Try clearing your history. I notice the delay only when I have dozens / hundreds of steps in history.

That solved it, thanks! :-) Now I have nothing but good words about Speedcrunch!

Except maybe that long histories create noticeable lag, that is.

Looking at its inner working seems it's uses SQLite as storing. While a few hundred entries in any SQLite DB should be a breeze to parse and show under a second, maybe the person(s) involved in this project are not that DB proficient and made some rookie mistakes. Maybe they'll notice this and improve it's history speed as well, shouldn't be a problem for any SQL developer with a bit of experience in hands.

Based on this issue https://bitbucket.org/heldercorreia/speedcrunch/issues/746 (2017) it could also be re-highlighting the entire history when a new expression is evaluated.

Speedcrunch is amazing.

I often have to do many simple calculations (adding numbers from a pdf,...) and having full history and being able to keep speedcrunch over the other windows is perfect. I also increased font-size dramatically to improve readability on big screens.

Sure, there are more advanced tools. But the simplicity and lightness on ressources is what makes it my go-to calculator.