An infidel should not join the congregation, if they do not intend to convert. /s
this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2025
1313 points (98.6% liked)
linuxmemes
25381 readers
784 users here now
Hint: :q!
Sister communities:
Community rules (click to expand)
1. Follow the site-wide rules
- Instance-wide TOS: https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
- Lemmy code of conduct: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/code_of_conduct.html
2. Be civil
- Understand the difference between a joke and an insult.
- Do not harrass or attack users for any reason. This includes using blanket terms, like "every user of thing".
- Don't get baited into back-and-forth insults. We are not animals.
- Leave remarks of "peasantry" to the PCMR community. If you dislike an OS/service/application, attack the thing you dislike, not the individuals who use it. Some people may not have a choice.
- Bigotry will not be tolerated.
3. Post Linux-related content
- Including Unix and BSD.
- Non-Linux content is acceptable as long as it makes a reference to Linux. For example, the poorly made mockery of
sudoin Windows. - No porn, no politics, no trolling or ragebaiting.
4. No recent reposts
- Everybody uses Arch btw, can't quit Vim, <loves/tolerates/hates> systemd, and wants to interject for a moment. You can stop now.
5. π¬π§ Language/ΡΠ·ΡΠΊ/Sprache
- This is primarily an English-speaking community. π¬π§π¦πΊπΊπΈ
- Comments written in other languages are allowed.
- The substance of a post should be comprehensible for people who only speak English.
- Titles and post bodies written in other languages will be allowed, but only as long as the above rule is observed.
6. (NEW!) Regarding public figures
We all have our opinions, and certain public figures can be divisive. Keep in mind that this is a community for memes and light-hearted fun, not for airing grievances or leveling accusations. - Keep discussions polite and free of disparagement.
- We are never in possession of all of the facts. Defamatory comments will not be tolerated.
- Discussions that get too heated will be locked and offending comments removed. Β
Please report posts and comments that break these rules!
Important: never execute code or follow advice that you don't understand or can't verify, especially here. The word of the day is credibility. This is a meme community -- even the most helpful comments might just be shitposts that can damage your system. Be aware, be smart, don't remove France.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Distros, bistros, tomatoh, tomahto.
instead of fried chicken, eat grilled chicken, instead of soda, drink grilled chicken
Next recipe: peanut butter and Mint jelly
btrfs reaching new heights
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 you
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.
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.
That sounds like a solid advice, where is the meme? smh
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
Given up on butter I see
It's a butter-cooled pc. More effective than water cooling.
load more comments
(1 replies)