Joplin is not really real-time collaborative, nor federated. Or rather, it wasn't last time I used it a few years ago, unless things have changed now. As a developer, I like Joplin though, that would be a great suggestion.
bruce965
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Oh yeah, I looked into and tried some of the European collaborative docs softwares, in particular I like this Numerique's clean Material UI interface and I'm definitely going to take inspiration from it (although I haven't installed and tried it, I just checked screenshots). Although, if you are recommending it as an alternative to my idea, Numerique doesn't seem to be federated, nor to be privacy-centric (well... it is if you self-host, but my idea is to let people collaborate through different servers, like Lemmy, I don't want users to need to trust the owner of the servers they join). And I really need an alternative to Google Keep more than Google Docs. I'll be honest, Google Keep is really well made in my opinion, I would say we don't yet have a good self-hostable alternative.
did I mix google keep and docs
Yeah, Google Keep is more like for text snippets, links, checklists, scribbles, and images. Google Docs is a full-fledged RTF editor. I was planning to implement the two things separately. I considered implementing Markdown in the Google Keep replacement, but I am still undecided whether it might count as feature-bloat.
vjournals
Oooh, that's nice. I know about VCard and VCal, but I didn't know about VJournal. Thanks for the hint, this might be very useful!
Ah, that's a shame, I quite liked the idea of using the "Simple" prefix. Well, naming software is hard! I'll just keep it as a temporary name for now. Thanks!
For me it was the same drive. I remember I had to generate a special file to convince VirtualBox to use the physical partition as if it was part of a different drive. I don't remember the details. Quite hacky perhaps, but it worked.
Iirc I had a Windows 7 (maybe 8 or 10) Home OEM, original (not cracked), but it still worked. Perhaps if I had kept using it for long periods in the VM it would have started complaining? Anyways I booted it baremetal from time to time, so maybe that's why it kept working.
That would definitely be a technical challenge, but also it's absolutely possible.
I used to do dual-boot Windows + Linux and I could run the Linux installation from a VM in Windows as well as the Windows installation from a VM in Linux.
When rebooting between metal and VM, Windows would always spend a few minutes "doing things" before continuing to boot, but it worked.
Linux would not even fret. It would just boot normally without any complaints.
I don't remember exactly which distro I had at the time, but probably it was Linux Mint.
If you don't want proprietary drivers the choice is quite straightforward: AMD. The official drivers are open source.
As for my experience, I've had absolutely no problems in the last few years with AMD, but I have to admit that I have always been using an iGPU, which has always been good enough for my needs.
I used to have problems with Nvidia proprietary drivers, but that was at least a couple years ago, things might have changed. I've never had issues with the free unofficial drivers, besides worse performance.
Yeah, I realize that and that's a nuisance for a videogame... If the game is small enough, OP might be able to give it a virtual GPU with VirtualBox, I did it in the past to play with friends on a single computer. I don't know if the usual KVM-based VMs support it as well.
Keep in mind that non-hardenized containers only protect you from bugs, they don't protect you from sophisticated malware. If you suspect the software you are trying to run might be a virus, don't run it, or run it in a virtual machine.
I would recommend using containers only if you absolutely understand how to make them secure AND you have no reason to suspect the software you are running might contain nefarious code. In any other case use a virtual machine.
On Windows: VirtualBox (free and easy to use, but still advanced/powerful) or HyperV (already included if you have Windows Pro).
On Linux: anything based on KVM, my personal favourite is virt-manager, but QEMU is also great.
I would stay away from VMware because the free version is quite limited, and the pro version is not free. The free alternatives are equally good or better, so no reason to use something paid imho.
I filled your survey. It would be nice if you could share the results once it's completed.
Ah, that's why the UI looked familiar! I have some of their apps on my Android :P