Yeah I installed that one you’re thinking of.

  • k0e3@lemmy.ca
    51·
    9 days ago

    I switched to Linux last year and in comfortably settled into Arch and now I’m to interested in it to try other distros even though I’m very curious to try…

    • Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      9·
      9 days ago

      It’s super easy to start a VM to try.

      Just install qemu (and optionally enable KVM), then to run eg. Ubuntu installer:

      qemu-system-x86_64 \
  -enable-kvm \
  -m 2G \
  -cpu host \
  -smp 2 \
  -cdrom /path/to/ubuntu-24.04-desktop-amd64.iso \
  -hda ubuntu-disk.qcow2 \
  -boot d \
  -vga virtio \
  -display gtk

      After you install it, run the VM:

      qemu-system-x86_64 \
  -enable-kvm \
  -m 2G \
  -cpu host \
  -smp 2 \
  -hda ubuntu-disk.qcow2 \
  -boot c \
  -vga virtio \
  -display gtk

      Or use libvirt, like a layer on top to make things much simpler. I use virt-manager for GUI and virsh on command line.