Not really sure how dualbooting or vms work at their core. I’m kind of over windows and want to swap, always liked the customizability aspect and have been using Linux more and more for self hosting purposes. Was wondering if I setup linux on my external ssd using a vm if I could change it from vm to a dualboot drive after I’m done setting it up. That way I could setitup and swap to it while keepign my original ssd with my windows install,. and not have to deal with dualbooting and going back and forth while setting up?
Can I make a vm of my current windows machine backup and run that in a linux setup?
no dual boot. just jump in, the water is fine.
I’ve switched to using it as my daily driver, and depending on what applications you use, the water is either fine, or is full of piranhas.
Using VR, for example, is still a massive pain in the ass, and requires me to boot into windows when the tenuous stack of software driving it on linux decides to stop working because it’s a full moon out.
Touch anything the wrong way, and you’re digging through random config or build files to fix it.
VR nevee worked for me the way it should like on Windows.
It did work many times and was playable. But soft stuttering was there. People literally gaslighted me on the internet that there is no stuttering while there obviously is
Stuttering is present in SteamVR due to lack of async reprojection. Thats why I’m using Envision which is an interface for a stack of a bunch of different open source VR stuff.
It’s quite a bit more finicky and fragile, but it at least has reprojection.
Is there an easy Guide? Would love to play around with it on Arch Linux with Wayland KDE
https://lvra.gitlab.io/ is a good start.
Some stuff you’ll have to mess around with.
I’ve found that some random issues like unexpected frame stutter or VR headset not being detected need a full power off of everything to fix sometimes. (Power off / disconnected. Reboots don’t work)
Today I tried it. It was pretty easy because of AUR on Arch Linux.
I tried Ancient Dungeon VR and it worked pretty well. I just need to figure out how to use some plugins like Stardust or smth. I slammed my Table because I couldn’t see the borders.
But I can say one thing. You helped me mentally a lot. I don’t need to play most games anymore in Windows I assume. Windows literally killed all my plans for the day everytime I wanted to “play quick” and “work quick”. There was just one thing to do, and I mostly procastinated because I wasn’t sure if I should reboot or not. BUT NOW I CAN JUST PLAY WHENEVER I WANT AND STOP WHENEVER I WANT. FUCK YEAH! Thanks a lot!
Awesome! Glad you were able to get everything working! It’ll probably still be frustrating somtimes, but I hope you enjoy it!
Piracy seems harder, like whats the alternative to vfxmed for stuff like houdinifx
Houdini FX has a Linux version, you’d just have to find a copy of it for Linux.
Correct, but I believe the user is looking for a cracked version, as they don’t have a license. The likelihood of that existing is significantly lower on Linux than it is for Windows given the much smaller userbase, the fragmentation into multiple package formats, and the overall distaste of proprietary software in the Linux community.
I found 20.0 on the first page of DDG but go off…
What is that
Used to play videogames now I spend days making reusable vfx that I never end up using, need to buy some interesting mocaps because I dont like hand animating ive come to find
off topic, but I saw you mentioned vr on other post so wondering wether you considered setting up vr mocap? For casual hobbyist like me stuff like glycon3d in enticing though I don’t know what type of mocap you’re after.
I just don’t enjoy the animation part that much, I like combining existing mocaps and then adding vfx, where I spend 75% of my time.
Thats fair. TBH mocap data cleanup is also a hassle and I haven’t decided to delve deeper into that. CMU has mocap data with permissive license you may find it interesting if you haven’t already.
Havent put my headset on in over a year now that I think about it, ill check out glycon 3d, I want a user mocpa library version of mixamo, I feel like enough ppl have suits and do this as a hobby that theyd be down to upload some free ones at least. The only platforms that exist don’t let ppl sell/list their own in an easy/consistent way.
You can, but it’s a bit difficult.
My suggestion would be to use a LiveCD. Test it out and see if like whichever distro you choose. It completely replicates the feeling of *nix being on your hardware without any commitment.
My recommendation would be to use clonezilla or a similar tool to make an image of your windows install and save that on the external ssd.
Then I would install Fedora KDE or whatever’s your poison on the internal drive.
If you wanna switch back to windows then you can always use clonezilla, or your tool of choice, to restore the image.
You could also use KVM/Qemu in your linux distro to restore the image into a windows vm.
virt-manager gives you a desktop gui while cockpit + cockpit-machines gives you a nice webui for handling virtual machines in linux.Clonezilla guide, for both linux and windows
https://www.linuxbabe.com/backup/how-to-use-clonezilla-liveBoth Cockpit and Virt-Manager are available in Fedora KDE’s Discover app if you prefer GUI installs:
Cockpit
Virt-Manager
this is a good solution
If you go with NixOS or guix, both of which are declaratively configured, you can swap 99.9% seamlessly. I run the same NixOS config on 2 machine and a VM. Only thing I had to modify between them are some driver specific settings, but those are easy to isolate.
NixOS and Guix are both very beginner-unfriendly. If you’re not very comfortable with Linux and its command line, I’d recommend against using them for personal systems.
