Missed the chance of writing it as “testing different bistros” but yeah, facts no printer
Fax in British accent
Been very tempted to get a beelink mini PC, N150 doesn’t cost much and could stick proxmox and Debian VMs on it
Get one. I got an AWOW mini just for playing with distros.
Given up on butter I see
It’s a butter-cooled pc. More effective than water cooling.
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Or just start with Ubuntu, while using a good mayonnaise for your grilled cheese.
Even better, Debian. Most peaceful distro ever.
Ubuntu is the miracle whip of distros.
instead of fried chicken, eat grilled chicken, instead of soda, drink grilled chicken
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?
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 youYeah, 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!
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.
Ahh OK thank you, it seems straight forward, but I may regret those words later lol
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.
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
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.
Let me interject for a moment. What you’ve referred to as “butter” is actually “I can’t believe it’s not/butter”. Have a pleasant day!
Oh, I remember that margarine brand, ICBINB: I Can’t Believe ICBINB’s Not Butter
That’s the one! Funny store about the name - it’s a recursive condiment.
Edit: sorry for inbox spam btw, lemmy.world having outages
No need for a vm btw, you can try a lot of them from your browser using distrosea.
This doesn’t really help you see what runs on your hardware.
A distribution isn’t a desktop.
Neither does a vm
Quite.
People should test distributions from bootable media.
Got em!
Distros, bistros, tomatoh, tomahto.
Next recipe: peanut butter and Mint jelly
so, that’s NetBSD under heavy load.
Instructions unclear, now have a perfectly functioning system whereas before it would show ads in the Start Menu. Should I start over and do again?
If you see ads … pour gasoline over the whole thing
I think you need to reinitialize pan.sh
Is mayonnaise a distribution?
It will be now that the idea has been sown.
Then there will be rival distros that hate each other. Dukes vs Miracle Whip debates. etc.
Miracle Whip is not mayonnaise. And no one actually knows what it is other then just plain nasty. Never, ever buy Miracle Whip.
Dukes all day. Sandwiches, salads, whatever. Savory mayo only. None of that sweet salad dressing people confuse with mayonnaise.
Looks like it. You distribute it across the bread.
Are you talking about making a grilled cheese where you sub Mayo for the butter? Cuz it turns out pretty awesome!
Wait until you try bacon grease. Y’all are in for a real treat.
I don’t know what broke in me recently, but for about 3 years now, pork products just taste kinda dirty
This tends to happen with major cultural expeditions. Mapping the world’s farts has likely altered your palette.
Good point. I’d consider retirement, but who else is gonna do this job?
Yep! I was very surprised with the result as well.
This is so stupid. I love it.
before you reach for butter, have you even considered whether or not a rolling release distro is right for you?
Or you could set up your desired sandwich through a few simple config files.
I read this as a “rolling cheese distro.” Like Debedam, or Camombware. I use Brie, btw.
You need to switch to Gamalost instead. Whey better package management. Brie curd use a better one.
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
Interesting. I put mayo on my hot dog buns. Just makes it better.
