I personally like to start with a debloated install and then install gnome on top rather than the other way round. Honestly to point 4 it slightly baffles me that people use vbox on Linux, KVM with libvirt/virt-manager is so much more powerful while still allowing for fairly straightforward basic setups without introducing 3rd party modules. Seems like a no brainer to me but apparently it isn't.

Cool that they're still running though. I've never setup a Linux system that I then had to turn over. They're all systems I maintain, I'm not entirely sure what my plan would be for a maintenance free machine that I expected other people to use.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

VBox has really easy Windows integration. To this day I have not managed to have a shared folder and especially clipboard with any guest, let alone Windows.

This may be easily possible, but not just a few clicks

[–] Scoopta 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Shared folders are easy with Linux guests, you just set it up in virt-manager and then mount it in Linux. With windows it's possible and I have done it but you need to install the virtiofs driver alongside winfsp and then make sure the virtiofs service is running. So the setup is definitely a bit obtuse. I haven't done clipboard sharing deliberately as I don't love the idea of that being synced but I should at least try it so I know what setup is like. The file sharing isn't hard once you learn how to set it up but figuring it out the first time is a challenge for windows guests.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I will see if this is documented and maybe try to improve it.

Docs are important!