So proud

What's the problem here? That's how I started with Linux.

Idk seems like gatekeeping to me. Why don't they wipe their disk and install Arch like real sigma linux users?
- Then get traumatized after having to wipe the entire system again because some package rendered the bootloader or the system completely useless.
- Why stop there? Can you even call yourself computer literate if you can't manually flip the bits in your RAM to perform basic tasks?
I don't even think VMs were a thing when I started. I remember dual booting back to Windows to google shit to fix drivers then then back 😂
- Technically VMs are older than Windows, but it was not super accessible in the 90s and early 00s which is when I'm guessing you were doing this.
- What's this "Google" thing you speak of? Back in my days you bought a huge book which came with a red hat or mandrake CD-ROM.

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The repetitive summary alone deserves all the downvotes
It allows people to keep using windows. If they had no alternative, they would install Linux natively
- If they had no alternative, they would stick with Windows.
- Don't be an elitist douche, dude. Weaning people off of windows is a valid strategy.

when you do it this way, it's foss, when you do it the other way around, it's piracy

society

And if you do it the correct way it's WSL2.
- the correct way is to install linux on bare metal and not use windows at all
- I don't usually downvote on Lemmy, but this is a real test of willpower.

What's with the 19 👎️ in that pic? I guess people really do hate Oracle.

Probably stuck up Linux users mad that someone wants to virtualize a distro instead of just installing it bare metal.

This is why people hate Linux nerds. Thanks.

Eh, that's still a decent gateway drug

Don't even need virtual box. You can just install Linux directly on Windows using what they call "WSL" (Windows subsystem for Linux)

They're doing it the wrong way round, VBox was actual garbage on Windows the last time I tried it. On Linux it just works and on Windows I considered myself lucky whenever something worked.

Yes, Linux (maybe it's just an Ubuntu problem) does not run well in Virtual box. I could get it to boot 1/10 times and was quite unstable. But that was two years ago, maybe things have changed
- Interesting. Linux runs fine in Linux (in a virtual box, or other similar visualising mechanism). I realise I've never tried VirtualBox in Windows.
- VirtualBox+HyperV runs Linux horribly - the "this shit is unbootable" kind of horribly.
  
  If you disable HyperV and use VirtualBox's default hypervisor, it at least boots and you can interact with the desktop environment. But it's still slow.

I’d love to run Linux as the primary env, but without a second GPU for GPU passthrough windows is basically useless for gaming.

So for now windows is the primary environment

I stuck with Windows for the longest time because of gaming, but for my needs that's no longer necessary. If it's been a while since you tried Steam on Linux you might want to give it another try.
- I play games that are almost exclusively not Linux compatible. CoD, Destiny 2 and iRacing are all still windows only and they’re about all I play

I don't get it? I first experienced Linux on Virtual Box (back when it was by Sun Microsystems, somewhere in 2011)

This is a really good way of introducing people to desktop Linux, it's miles better than telling them to run WSL /etc

I'm sorry but this is just... Toxic?

Can you install Linux, to install windows, which has a copy of Linux installed? I assume the only end system resources?

Here's Windows running in Virtualbox on Linux, which is running in Virtualbox on Windows.
You'd need nested virtualization enabled on your CPU, but yup, you can do it.

I hope today is Opposite day!

Vmware? eww

gross