It objectively takes fewer mouse clicks and keyboard keystrokes to install a Windows VM with drivers and full integration (3D, shared folders, etc.) on VMware Player than virt-manager. I could count them for you but I have better things to do. Setting up an equivalent VM with virt-manager is significantly more work. Just a trivial example - getting the VirtIO drivers. On virt-manager you have to search the web, find multiple sources, figure out which to use, figure out which version to download, download it. On VMware, you click the top menu, then Install VM tools, the end. With that said I'm not complaining, because I don't have the time to write the patches needed for virt-manager to work the same, but the difference is there.
avidamoeba
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VMware Player is the best by far in terms of GUI and ease of use. With that said:
- It breaks once in a while due to kernel module / kernel mismatches that sometimes require manual patching. This is rare but it happens once every couple of years
- It may become paid given Broadcom's corporate history
Virt-manager is pretty decent and it will not break on a stable distro but:
- Some of it workflows are far from intuitive
- Virtualization via virt-manager (really KVM) doesn't currently have any 3D acceleration for Windows VMs
- Windows driver/guest tools installation and integration isn't nearly as trivial as it is with VMware
Personally, I'd try using virt-manager because it will work "forever." If you can't get something to work and feel overwhelmed, go to VMware for now but long term you'll likely have to get used to virt-manager.
Oh yes, this totally makes sense without an extension on mobile. Thanks for the update!
One more Q - is your ArchiveBox setup able to save pages that require login? E.g. paywalled news articles that you have subscriptions for, some other stuff behind auth?
I should have know that the person on the internet noting 30Mbps was pretty good till recently is a fellow Canadian. 🍁 #ROBeLUS
BTW, TekSavvy recently started offering fiber seemingly on Bell's last mile.
Yeah, I also moved from 30Mb upload to 700Mb recently and it's just insane. It's also insane thinking I had a symmetric gigabit connection in Eastern Europe in the 2000s for fairly cheap. It was Ethernet though, not fiber. Patch cables and switches all the way to the central office. 🫠
Most people in Canada today have 50Mb upload at the most expensive connection tiers - on DOCSIS 3.x. Only over the last few years fiber began becoming more common but it's still fairly uncommon as it's the most expensive connection tier if at all available.
Makes sense. I currently have ArchiveBox setup but it doesn't automatically save anything. I was thinking about getting it to save bookmarks. I guess I'll setup Linkwarden to try out the workflow too.
Doesn't Linkwarden play the role of the bookmarks manager? Doesn't/can't it save all that's bookmarked in it?
Yeah, something like that. I verified it it with rsync after that, no errors.
~15TB over the internet via 30Mbps uplink without any special considerations. Syncthing handled any and all network and power interruptions. I did a few power cable pulls myself.
Debian but mostly Ubuntu LTS with the free Ubuntu Pro that gives 10-year support. If I get hit by a bus, chances are the self-hosted systems I've setup would continue to work for years till my family can get someone to support or migrate the data. 😅
I think anyone doing production administration would be using some storage level snapshots. Also updates are rarely done in production. Typically new VMs are spun up, from prebuilt images that contain the new updates.