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  • Yes, this is something that should be taken into account when designing this software.
    Set dual-boot as a default / design UI in a way that offers dual-boot as a preferred option.
    And many other technical issues will probably appear that will have to be figured out.
    But I think that at least even thinking about this is a good start.
    Also, this reminds me of 2013, when people accidentally nuked their Windows installs with Linux because they wanted to get the Tux in Team Fortress 2 (Valve gave it to people who played Linux version of TF2).















  • Ah yes, sorry. The video is from Youtube, but post points to a link that also adds one of privacy frontends. However Youtube has been very uncooperative with these kinds of things in the last year or so.
    Here is a direct link: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4TmHSsIU1ns
    I also added it to the post description.


  • testman@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.mlAlternatives to VirtualBox?
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    1 year ago

    As jet points out, QEMU for actual hardware virtualisation.

    There is one relevant thing, which is not exactly in the same category, but does somewhat similar thing:
    containers
    most popular example being Docker
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Containerization_(computing)
    containers don't emulate whole hardware stack like virtual machines do, they just run the guest OS on top of host OS.
    so because they don't put resources towards emulating hardware, they are much more resource efficient.
    so if your problem is "I'm running Fedora but I want to run something that for some reason runs just on Ubuntu", then you could use containers for that.
    containers are mostly used in headless environments (as in servers, no GUI), so running and displaying desktop Linux inside them is a bit tricky, but it can be done.




  • I think that the insistance on headphone jack has gone too far.
    There are now enough wired USB-C headphones and wireless earbuds available.
    Yes, there are edge cases, like people who work in audio industry where most equipment uses jack as standard connector, or car aux ports, etc.
    But when it comes to most casual listening, there are enough solutions.

    When migrating to the new phone I tried with USB-C to 3.5 adapter. It did not work most of the time. I suspect that the issue was in my somewhat defective headphones, which have damaged wire and therefore unreliable connection.
    Previous phone and other devices were probably able to mitigate the occasional "disconnect", while the adapter completely dropped connection.

    But then I bought USB-C headphones, which work fine.