What’s the problem here? That’s how I started with Linux.
Idk seems like gatekeeping to me. Why don’t they wipe their disk and install Arch like real sigma linux users?
Why stop there? Can you even call yourself computer literate if you can’t manually flip the bits in your RAM to perform basic tasks?
Potentially relevant xkcd here: https://xkcd.com/378/
Then get traumatized after having to wipe the entire system again because some package rendered the bootloader system completely useless.
I don’t even think VMs were a thing when I started. I remember dual booting back to Windows to google shit to fix drivers then then back 😂
What’s this “Google” thing you speak of? Back in my days you bought a huge book which came with a red hat or mandrake CD-ROM.
Technically VMs are older than Windows, but it was not super accessible in the 90s and early 00s which is when I’m guessing you were doing this.
My system can barely handle windows 7. A linux VM on top of that? Fuck no
So installed mint
Dude why downvote that? It gives people another way to use Linux.
The repetitive summary alone deserves all the downvotes
It allows people to keep using windows. If they had no alternative, they would install Linux natively
If they had no alternative, they would stick with Windows.
Depends. As an IT students, my mates have no choice but to use Linux
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when you do it this way, it’s foss, when you do it the other way around, it’s piracy
society
And if you do it the correct way it’s WSL2.
the correct way is to install linux on bare metal and not use windows at all
The correct way to install Linux on Windows is to install it on bare metal? Looks like you failed the reading comprehension.
No, the correct way in general is to not install windows at all
Unless you need something that’s Windows-only. And dual-booting is the worst possible option.
Single gpu passthrough with qemu vm, ez.
qemu? Doesn’t that totally kill all performance? Also, unless you have massice performance margins, running two OSes at the same time will have a serious impact on performance, especially if Windows is the OS that needs the performance.
then you put it in box and make passthrough work
Stuff needs to be worth the effort. Most people run an OS to get specific tasks done, not the other way round. Sure, you can spend days getting something to work. Or you just don’t.
I don’t usually downvote on Lemmy, but this is a real test of willpower.
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What’s with the 19 👎️ in that pic? I guess people really do hate Oracle.
Eh, that’s still a decent gateway drug
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Don’t even need virtual box. You can just install Linux directly on Windows using what they call “WSL” (Windows subsystem for Linux)
I’d love to run Linux as the primary env, but without a second GPU for GPU passthrough windows is basically useless for gaming.
So for now windows is the primary environment
I stuck with Windows for the longest time because of gaming, but for my needs that’s no longer necessary. If it’s been a while since you tried Steam on Linux you might want to give it another try.
I play games that are almost exclusively not Linux compatible. CoD, Destiny 2 and iRacing are all still windows only and they’re about all I play
Those games all show up on Lutris.
Anti-cheats don’t work, even if the game runs. It’s the curse of always online gaming.
I heard that with the rising popularity of the Steam Deck, EAC is working on Linux compatibility (at least through Proton). In fact, I think it’s been available for developers to switch on right now.
That’s kinda the Linux curse. It works for almost every use case and the use cases it works for are increasing every year. But it’s still not every use case.
For work I can live with terrible teams for linux and prospect mail. But for my private main PC, there are just too many use cases that are important to me, that still don’t work.
I don’t get it? I first experienced Linux on Virtual Box (back when it was by Sun Microsystems, somewhere in 2011)
This is a really good way of introducing people to desktop Linux, it’s miles better than telling them to run WSL /etc
I’m sorry but this is just… Toxic?
They’re doing it the wrong way round, VBox was actual garbage on Windows the last time I tried it. On Linux it just works and on Windows I considered myself lucky whenever something worked.
Yes, Linux (maybe it’s just an Ubuntu problem) does not run well in Virtual box. I could get it to boot 1/10 times and it’s quite unstable. But that was two years ago, maybe things have changed
VirtualBox+HyperV runs Linux horribly - the “this shit is unbootable” kind of horribly.
If you disable HyperV and use VirtualBox’s default hypervisor, it at least boots and you can interact with the desktop environment. But it’s still slow.
I hope today is Opposite day!
Can you install Linux, to install windows, which has a copy of Linux installed? I assume the only end system resources?
Here’s Windows running in Virtualbox on Linux, which is running in Virtualbox on Windows.
