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.
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. = )
For sure. Remember you can always just load up a USB stick and load live. I do that all the time.
wasnt sure if you could do that with arch, because of the low level it installs at?