I want to get into Arch Linux, but I don’t have that much experience and I feel like it’ll be easier to set it up in a virtual machine rathen than dual booting, I’ve used Oracle VirtualBox before but it’s very laggy. Are there any other VMs that aren’t as laggy, or do I just have a hardware issue?

  • @[email protected]
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    If your computer is a Linux, QEMU/KVM with libvirtd is great. If you run a Windows 10 or higher, HyperV works great, you should also be able to grab a VMware Player if it’s still free. For Mac you have Parallels I believe.

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      11 months ago

      Gnome Boxes is also great for simple stuff on Linux. Besides there is virt-manager as GUI for libvirt. On macOS UTM is a good free and open source tool.

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      HyperV doesn’t let you adjust the screen size does it? I tried to use it for work but that held me back

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        I believe you need to install the drivers for it. Something similar to vmwaretools but for hyperv.

        • @CameronDev
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          Oh okay, I couldn’t even find any screen settings, so I assumed it was just not possible. Thanks, I’ll look into it :)