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.
Scoopta
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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.
I suppose that's true. I also don't install the predefined GUI options. I always install my GUI manually after disabling recommended packages. Recommended packages are my biggest Debian gripe. They're great for users that don't know what they're doing but for power users I find it kinda bloated. I should probably try flatpak again but last time I did it was just annoying and in the way and gave up.
Does the UX suck? Genuine question. Debian is where I moved after I outgrew mint and I've never had a problem with it or felt like it was cludgy
A lot of companies run Debian and Debian based distros, Google on their servers for a start
If you're using systemd they just recently introduced run0 which works very similarly to what's talked about here
Should probably fix that given we've been out of IPv4 for over a decade now and v6 is only becoming more widely deployed
This sums up how I feel nicely. No issues with parens...but whitespace...fuck that shit
Environment variables are easy to setup in bash? It's never been anything other than straightforward in my experience
Always has? It's supported java and I think python for forever
Huh, tbh I've never given KDE a real try. I used it way back in the day on OpenSUSE because I wanted a windows experience but that was when I was still playing around with Linux. I've never used it full time. My first full time DE was cinnamon and eventually I decided I wanted something radically different and so went to gnome 3 and never really considered KDE as radically different from anything I had used before.
Meanwhile one of my projects is running my own caching CDN for my sites(personal not production)