• crawancon@lemm.ee
    27·
    28 days ago

    before you reach for butter, have you even considered whether or not a rolling release distro is right for you?

  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    1·
    28 days ago

    Been very tempted to get a beelink mini PC, N150 doesn’t cost much and could stick proxmox and Debian VMs on it

  • KeenFlame@feddit.nu
    5·
    28 days ago

    Heyyy bros and sisses. I am currently trying to do this after being fully converted by you guys. I am technically capable and have run Linux before. However, I am unsure if virtualbox is the best to use for this, and where to get isos and stuff… Just generally I searched around for doing precisely this, and there was barely any info available. Maybe I used the wrong keywords?

    • QuazarOmega@lemy.lol
      6·
      28 days ago

      I’m guessing you’re currently on Windows, right? If so, Virtualbox is perfectly fine, otherwise, if you’re on Linux already, you could use Boxes or Virt manager that are more performant, but don’t stress yourself if you just wanna play around Virtualbox will always be more than sufficient.
      As for the ISOs you can just get them directly from the distro websites or, if using Boxes, you can choose one at VM creation and it’ll download it for you

      • KeenFlame@feddit.nu
        2·
        25 days ago

        Yeah, but it’s really great to know about boxes, I will probably run that once I am on bare metal, for development and producing music. Thanks!

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
      2·
      28 days ago

      Personally, I’d just try live boot usbs instead of going to the effort of setting up VMs for different distros.

      For getting images, my approach would be to search for the distro name to find its website and look for their downloads page. If there’s multiple flavours, just pick one and see how you like it. You can always switch to a different one once you’ve got enough experience to decide what is and isn’t important for you.

      If you just want to game, Fedora was pretty easy to get going for me. I just installed that and then steam and was able to play games after that. I’ve got an AMD gpu and it was actually easier than on windows, since you still need to install gpu and chipset drivers on windows. The only time I spent on that in Fedora was the time it took to figure out I didn’t need to do that.

      Only parts that took a little digging was mounting my other partitions (I think because I misunderstood some setup during the install, but it ended up being no big deal) and finding the setting that enabled all games to be attempted to run with proton, since by default steam will only show games with official linux support as playable by default.

      Also getting sound working the way I wanted it to was a bit of a hassle, though any of the workarounds I tried worked pretty quickly. I wanted to use the optical digital, but it wouldn’t at first, but sound did work from the analog port as well as plugging my soundbar in via USB. And even though I gave up on getting the digital to work at the time because I just wanted to play a game, when I later swung back to it, it just worked, so I’m guessing it was just broken because my motherboard was a new one and the software needed to be updated to properly support it.

      • KeenFlame@feddit.nu
        2·
        25 days ago

        Thanks a million! Is Fedora using our capable of using wayland or will that be troublesome? I have an nvidia chipset on my laptop unfortunately, but I’ve heard many distros take care of those pretty good nowadays

        • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
          2·
          24 days ago

          All I can say for sure is that the cinnamon desktop I’m using has wayland (experimental) as an option. I haven’t tried it myself so I don’t know how stable it is. Or how well it might work with other desktops.

    • blaze@programming.dev
      3·
      27 days ago

      Virtualbox is fine to test things out. In general, if you were to install it directly to your machine, it will run snappier than it will run in the virtual machine. Just saying if it feels laggy in Virtualbox, that doesn’t mean it won’t work.

      For ISOs just go to the website of the distro you choose and look for ‘Downloads’. Usually there’s an ISO that’s been optimized for Virtualbox.

  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
    7·
    27 days ago

    Alright guys I’m gonna tell you…I don’t use butter on my grilled cheese.

    Nah. I use mayonnaise. A very thin coating, it doesn’t take much – and ultimately it’s easier for butter to be many more calories and taste inferior