Wait, openbsd can run debian vms?
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rozodru@piefed.world 3 days agohonestly man…it’s not a bad decision. I for a long time didn’t give Debian the time of day. Now i’m daily driving OpenBSD and I use a Debian VM on it for certain dev work (mainly builds and deploys) and then on my second NVME I first went with Bazzite to do gaming but then I changed my mind and was like “meh, debian” and it’s solid. it’s good. it stays out of my way for what I want to do on it which isn’t much.
It’s a decent distro that’s just kinda there and you don’t have to worry about it.
pmk@piefed.ca 3 days ago
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
Why wouldn’t it be able to if it supports virtualization? Probably could run Windows VMs if you wanted to.
pmk@piefed.ca 3 days ago
vmm used to only support openbsd as guest os iirc, I guess it has added linux support.
rozodru@piefed.world 2 days ago
yup very easy to setup too. it’s a VERY basic netinstall of Debian. but right now I have it to run builds, deploy, and even have nix on there to do some nixos stuff.
Dadifer@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Except the NVIDIA drivers are 40 versions behind and break every time the kernel updates.
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 3 days ago
It’s perfect for my 8 year old laptop
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
The Nvidia driver in the Debian repos is virtually abandoned, though thankfully the Cuda repos hosted by Nvidia support Debian now, and give Debian users access to the latest drivers, like 610.
helios@social.ggbox.fr 3 days ago
I enabled this repo last week on Debian 13 (RTX4080). While it technically works, I’d say it’s not without risks for those not a little familiar with linux.
It first required some fiddling cause the file that is supposed to blacklist Nouveau on boot was renamed by apt as .save or something as a result of the package upgrades, so the system just started loading Nouveau instead of the new driver. Fixing this got me further, as the 610 proprietary driver finally loaded.
Sarting my usual plasma X11 session didn’t work though. It launched but didn’t display shit (grey boxes instead of windows and taskbar basically).
Having also plasma wayland available from sddm, I tried to launch this session and it got me a working desktop. So I ended settling with this. Wayland used to be crap on my system, but with this recent NVIDIA drivers, it’s usable. My only real complaint is the extra latency on the mouse cursor.
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 3 days ago
I also had some difficulty getting it working on my rig, and I’m not a big fan if Debian’s documentation, as it often does assume knowledge, which makes it harder to follow along and feel confident you’re doing the correct steps.
Ultimately I switched my only Nvidia system to standard Linux Mint to have access to their easy to use Nvidia driver installer, which makes upgrading or downgrading the driver a 1-click process.
Dadifer@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Just wait until the kernel updates.
TehWorld@lemmy.world 3 days ago
My hardware is about 43 versions behind, so… we good. Kinda. Waiting for that bubble to pop.
x7HlPDq9dSNO6v3A9@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I’m so glad it’s not just me that’s had this lol. My laptop blackscreened after a house move and when I saw the GPU was offline I thought it didn’t survive the journey.