s3rvant

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] - What are some niche applications / use cases you've gotten working on your deck?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep iirc virt manager is just a gui front end for qemu though imo certainly makes it easier to manage the vm’s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] - What are some niche applications / use cases you've gotten working on your deck?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, initially tried to setup virtual box as I’m more familiar there but could not for the life of me get around install errors. After setting the OS to read-write installing virt manager was pretty straight forward; the only real hiccup I had was that I needed to install win-fsp on the guest os before installing guest additions like virtio-fs which allowed me to add the shared folder between host/guest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Discussion] - What are some niche applications / use cases you've gotten working on your deck?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My son-in-law got a deck as a cheap gaming PC but also needed to be able to use Adobe software which we were struggling to get working in bottles / wine so we setup virt manager and added a windows VM with a shared folder between host and guest VM. Works great and he’s learning a lot about linux as his daily driver without losing access to the tools he needs for work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep! I have a Pi 4 running Pihole blocking ads on network and often get thanks from the teens when they’re away from home and they realize just how many ads they would otherwise be exposed to

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Smart devices are turning out to be a poor investment⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  We replaced ours with a refurbished business desktop, installed Linux and Jellyfin then use with a wireless keyboard with built-in track pad

  Plays media great, emulates up to Wii and can use for general web browsing too