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A neat idea that I hadn’t thought of until your comment: Because it’s now possible to run multiple VMs at once (containers, etc) perhaps it’s time to run a sim

A neat idea that I hadn’t thought of until your comment: Because it’s now possible to run multiple VMs at once (containers, etc) perhaps it’s time to run a simple, minimal, admin friendly hacker vm inside Ubuntu desktop? Let Ubuntu configure all that it needs to get a good functional machine out of the box (working sleep mode for laptops, WiFi management, GPU support, systemd if that’s what it wants.) I then deploy the minimal VM I actually want to poke around with inside that installation. This is pretty much what many people do in macOS. Apple’s OS supports the bare metal, vagrant / VirtualBox give me my tractably scrutable dev environment. It’s not a particularly ground breaking concept but it might cheer me up a bit when battling with the volatility of user facing Linux distributions.

philsnow 7y ago
sounds a little bit like https://www.qubes-os.org/intro/ https://www.qubes-os.org/intro/
jimktrains2 7y ago
Just being pedantic: containers aren't vms. Containers use the native Linux kernel namespacing and segregation facilities to run multiple applications in a somewhat segregated way.
eitland 7y ago
> Because it’s now possible to run multiple VMs at once (containers, etc) perhaps it’s time to run a simple, minimal, admin friendly hacker vm inside Ubuntu desktop? > Let Ubuntu configure all that it needs to get a good functional machine out of the box (working sleep mode for laptops, WiFi management, GPU support, systemd if that’s what it wants.) I then deploy the minimal VM I actually want to poke around with inside that installation. If there's anyone like me here they might be happy to know that KDE Neon exists and is something like: - Stable Ubuntu base. - Infinitely (almost) customizable KDE on top. - And (IMO unlike Kubuntu) sane defaults.
- nitrogen 7y ago
  Thanks for the tip about KDE Neon. I use Kubuntu, but it definitely misses the mark.

philsnow 7y ago

sounds a little bit like https://www.qubes-os.org/intro/ https://www.qubes-os.org/intro/

jimktrains2 7y ago

Just being pedantic: containers aren't vms. Containers use the native Linux kernel namespacing and segregation facilities to run multiple applications in a somewhat segregated way.

eitland 7y ago

> Because it’s now possible to run multiple VMs at once (containers, etc) perhaps it’s time to run a simple, minimal, admin friendly hacker vm inside Ubuntu desktop? > Let Ubuntu configure all that it needs to get a good functional machine out of the box (working sleep mode for laptops, WiFi management, GPU support, systemd if that’s what it wants.) I then deploy the minimal VM I actually want to poke around with inside that installation. If there's anyone like me here they might be happy to know that KDE Neon exists and is something like: - Stable Ubuntu base. - Infinitely (almost) customizable KDE on top. - And (IMO unlike Kubuntu) sane defaults.

nitrogen 7y ago
Thanks for the tip about KDE Neon. I use Kubuntu, but it definitely misses the mark.