I want to get into Arch Linux, but I don’t have that much experience and I feel like it’ll be easier to set it up in a virtual machine rathen than dual booting, I’ve used Oracle VirtualBox before but it’s very laggy. Are there any other VMs that aren’t as laggy, or do I just have a hardware issue?

  • SpaceCadet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Desktop usage is almost always going to feel laggy in a VM because you don’t have a real GPU inside the VM and it will fallback to some non-accelerated framebuffer mode. There are some GPU virtualization solutions, for example QEMU has virgl that offers 3D acceleration, but in my experience it’s buggy/not ready and doesn’t offer near bare metal performance.

    The only way to get near bare metal graphical performance in a VM is by using PCI pass through of an entire GPU, but that requires an extra GPU, is non-trivial to setup and comes with a lot of caveats.

      • SpaceCadet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Probably not. There are no implementations that I’m aware of that work well on a Linux guest.

    • Papamousse@beehaw.orgEnglish
      26·
      1 year ago

      Don’t worry, if he installs Arch from scratch, it will take him a long time before even having internet connection or installing X.

      • akash_rawal
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        1 year ago

        Dunno why are people spreading this myth… Arch is not that hard to install and you don’t get a gold medal for installing it. I installed it with LXDE in an office machine, it only took me an hour.