What's weird, though, is I have to periodically go back to windows from time to time to use something that absolutely refuses to work on linux (most android rooting tools for instance) or to do family tech support, and it just makes me appreciate linux more...
You learn to let go of anything Windows. I resent it. I haven’t run Windows outside of a vM for years. Actually like 20
I run Debian and Arch. With a fresh Debian install I can pick and choose whatever I want from Ubuntu and run. Being more minimal is attractive. I use an interface called I3.
Like imagine a desktop with NOTHING. You have a modifier key and a terminal. You launch programs manually and then you can slap the windows around very easily and very rapidly. The idea being that you have no desktop eating u resources but you do have the ability to split windows, slam them, rearrange them. all really quick and easily.
I'm kinda nervous about running rooting tools through Vm to be honest... there's enough that can go wrong without having to navigate virtual machine headaches.
I've wanted to try arch for a while, to be honest, but to put it mildly, it's a little intimidating from a newbie perspective, lol.
OK now this is a conversation I have more familiarity with than I probably should.
%100 - "Why add complexity to something that doesn't require it?"
That's an entirely valid premise.
For me VMs add a very specific capability.
Portability. I can work in a vm, snapshot, revert, and more importantly I can slap a VM and export it to other machines in other topologies and I get a ton out of that.
Security. I can run a VM on anything. That saying the underlying basic premise being that VMs really give you the ability to run anything anywhere.
Example I am forced to use OSX at work - but I can run VirtualBox or Vmware and then run Linux within that and lean on the underlying OS to do a few other things and all.
I like VMs (I've actually played with the idea of running a VM across multiple potato computers to make a computer that can actually handle a few more modern games I enjoy playing, but I never quite got around to doing it), it's just some small stuff that honestly works better on a physical machine.
ubuntu, fedora or something more obscure?
What's weird, though, is I have to periodically go back to windows from time to time to use something that absolutely refuses to work on linux (most android rooting tools for instance) or to do family tech support, and it just makes me appreciate linux more...
You learn to let go of anything Windows. I resent it. I haven’t run Windows outside of a vM for years. Actually like 20
I run Debian and Arch. With a fresh Debian install I can pick and choose whatever I want from Ubuntu and run. Being more minimal is attractive. I use an interface called I3.
https://youtu.be/keD_aBumScE
I3 looks interesting, maybe i'll look into it more at some point = )
It's very very pointed.
Like imagine a desktop with NOTHING. You have a modifier key and a terminal. You launch programs manually and then you can slap the windows around very easily and very rapidly. The idea being that you have no desktop eating u resources but you do have the ability to split windows, slam them, rearrange them. all really quick and easily.
sounds similar to standalone xwindows (I played with a few odd distros here and there before I settled into Fedora)
I'm kinda nervous about running rooting tools through Vm to be honest... there's enough that can go wrong without having to navigate virtual machine headaches.
I've wanted to try arch for a while, to be honest, but to put it mildly, it's a little intimidating from a newbie perspective, lol.
OK now this is a conversation I have more familiarity with than I probably should.
%100 - "Why add complexity to something that doesn't require it?"
That's an entirely valid premise.
For me VMs add a very specific capability.
Portability. I can work in a vm, snapshot, revert, and more importantly I can slap a VM and export it to other machines in other topologies and I get a ton out of that.
Security. I can run a VM on anything. That saying the underlying basic premise being that VMs really give you the ability to run anything anywhere.
Example I am forced to use OSX at work - but I can run VirtualBox or Vmware and then run Linux within that and lean on the underlying OS to do a few other things and all.
I like VMs (I've actually played with the idea of running a VM across multiple potato computers to make a computer that can actually handle a few more modern games I enjoy playing, but I never quite got around to doing it), it's just some small stuff that honestly works better on a physical machine.
By the way if there is anything technical you would like to talk to - I am all about that sort of conversation as helping you helps me.
Have to clear some room on a machine, but yeah, I'll holler at ya if I ever get around to it, lol. = )