Half of these exist because I was bored once.
The Windows 10 and MacOS ones are GPU passthrough enabled and what I occasionally use if I have to use a Windows or Mac application. Windows 7 is also GPU enabled, but is more a nostalgia thing than anything.
I think my PopOS VM was originally installed for fun, but I used it along with my Arch Linux, Debian 12 and Testing (I run Testing on host, but I wanted a fresh environment and was too lazy to spin up a Docker or chroot), Ubuntu 23.10 and Fedora to test various software builds and bugs, as I don’t like touching normal Ubuntu unless I must.
The Windows Server 2022 one is one I recently spun up to mess with Windows Docker Containers (I have to port an app to Windows, and was looking at that for CI). That all become moot when I found out Github’s CI doesn’t support Windows Docker containers despite supporting Windows runners (The organization I’m doing it for uses Github, so I have to use it).
*sane
*some
*lame
I guess you should use proxmox at this point 🤣
Honestly they really should
I mean is there any really reason though, they both run on the same subsystem and they aren’t doing anything crazy
There are many many many insane people who are running no virtual machines at all.
With that many Windows (gasp) ones, no… I’m afraid you are not
Mutahar please log in to your main account
Hey I get this reference.
linux users are sane?
Users are sane?
sane?
Yes, but usually they’d have a more robust VM management system to stay sane for long.
I have about twice this many VMs and about this many running at any given time.
I use Qubes btw
What do you use it for? How’s the daily-driver experience?
Its my only computer. I couldn’t go back to anything else. Every time I double click Firefox, it opens a new VM. When I close Firefox, the VM is destroyed.
Email is in a separate VM. Email attachments also open in a disposable VM. USB devices are quarantined unless I connect them to a specific VM. Its a game changer.
Cons: I need as much ram as I used to need when I ran Windows. Watching videos is a bit choppy at full screen sometimes. And I can’t play any video games.
Sounds like some pretty serious cons
Out of curiosity why do you like qubes? Having everything in a VM doesn’t sound that great to me
I get that the main concern of it is security but what do you do that it demands that level of hardening? I’ve only ever got one virus in my life that I know of as it is and that was on windows
Lol wut? Those pros far outweigh the cons. But I guess I don’t care about video games?
I have money on my computer, and I have a company that has customer info. That’s enough of a reason for me to want to protect my shit better than running one big, super-vulnerable system
itd be bad as a daily driver imo
Is this like opening tons of browser tabs?
Hell to update them regularly 👀
Nah, most of the windows ones don’t get updates any more and the Linux ones can get a script that updates on boot. Takes longer to start up but handles the job itself.
That’s why I’m starting to prefer LTSC.
I think you have a problem, there needs to be more to be normal.
insert MORE, MORE!-Kylo Ren meme here
The biggest reason why I don’t want maintain so many Vms is, because all the maintenance and updates that involve doing so.
And that’s why there’s a “-2” on the end of that arch vm - there was one before that I borked while trying to update it because I hadn’t used it in so long.
It’s only insane if you have them all running at once.
Interesting enough, there is a project that I’ve found that runs Windows in a Docker container as a VM.
https://github.com/dockur/windows
I run a Windows 10 LTSC that way to run things like Blue Iris for my security cameras, and some stuff to track my solar installation.
Sounds nice, how useable is it?
runs Blue Iris and I can rdp into it over a cellular modem fine. And its running on an ancient i3
I mean, people collect all sorts of weird shit
