Let's talk Linux

Heh, Win11 pissed me off enough (I haven't migrated any main machines over yet) that I'm not going to switch to it. If I need windows, it can live in a VM, or a remote, or whatever, anyway.

I did pick up one of those little nucboxes to play with W11, and fwiw it'll be a perfectly fine host for anything low powered but win specific. But QEMU has perfectly fine GPU passthrough for stuff that needs to be on a faster (virtual) machine, plus I don't have to worry about decrufting bing or copilot or whatever out of the mandatory updates.

At least, that's the plan when W10 goes EOL. And I guess the pixelbook, too. I can run android vms in linux just fine.

 

My subconscious mind will always associate it with the time that canonical put Amazon listings in the search results

 

Ewww.. That said, FF is just about as bad with placements. I only really deal with ubuntu on the server side, though.

Also, that said, right now my primary 'linux' laptop is my chromebook (with all the rando debian jazz I need). I'm just pushing the boundaries of what chromeos can do wrt direct device control...

 

I have Win 7 in a VM for those few things that have no Linux alternatives. It's usually for some hardware that needs some specific software that needs some specific supporting software that's buried in an archive somewhere with a bunch of dead links or tons of advertising.


Also for some reason I have a VM for both 32-bit and 64-bit Win7. The 64-bit version happily runs being unlicensed, while the 32-bit version constantly bugs me about being unlicensed while I'm using it.