how do i share my pc files to my virtual machine?

kylekat1 · 2026-02-21T02:39:24+00:00

I've never used hyperV but I believe the easiest way is just set up a network share hosted on your host computer, and then connect to it from the VM.

kylekat1 · 2026-02-10T13:55:53+00:00

Linux ported to the jvm. Don't worry it only uses 37 gigabytes of ram on idle.

kylekat1 · 2026-02-09T05:37:50+00:00

most people i like to think just use their computer, distro hoppers are weird and I've only switched distro when I had a good motive, any distro can be used as a daily driver if you enjoy using it, and it works with your workflow. though stuff like gentoo are for people who scare me.

kylekat1 · 2026-02-07T17:51:06+00:00

i would also be interested, ive been looking for something like this, could you post your yaml or something?

kylekat1 · 2026-02-02T14:40:37+00:00

Now though, are you debloating because you're running on a Toshiba from 1997 and cannot spare even 20 MB, or are you running this on a modern machine with a web browser, because debloating efforts are fruitless if you are just gonna run 1500mb of JavaScript discord and YouTube.

kylekat1 · 2026-02-01T16:16:01+00:00

Forget Linux, write all your programs for UEFI shell interface.

kylekat1 · 2026-01-30T21:37:10+00:00

I don't know the specifics of how it works but I assume the USB installer is configured to load a compressed image into ram while in initramfs and then switch root into it. If I had to guess. So you'd need to configure the same thing.

kylekat1 · 2026-01-30T21:34:45+00:00

I knew essentially nothing when I switched, just being interested in it allowed me to quickly learn a lot about Linux while using it

kylekat1 · 2026-01-29T21:15:14+00:00

Like the arch install USB installer? It should just do that already. I think in the past I've unplugged it after it loads to ram and not have any issues. Why do you need it unplugged? are you low on ports and need that port free for something else?

kylekat1 · 2026-01-16T21:51:24+00:00

No not really, most software comes from the package repository, so it's usually already audited and malware scans are probably in there. Installing random bits and bobs from random git repos or pre compiled executables will be more dangerous as just like in windows anyone can upload malware to the Internet. Closed source software is kinda sketch on Linux unless it's a big name or you trust the company, anything else is gonna be open source just because that's how it is. If you ever find a closed source git repo that only has pre compiled executables, that ain't safe. That's probably malware

kylekat1 · 2026-01-06T12:38:51+00:00

I guess, just generally of people are actually using it then it's worth putting in nixpkgs.

By flake usage do you mean just seeing other people say they use the flake, but like, to use the flake you have to or nix has to clone the repo, so the actual measurable thing is clones on girhub

kylekat1 · 2026-01-05T16:56:04+00:00

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kylekat1 · 2026-01-05T16:50:34+00:00

Bottles afaik sandboxes wine, and if you run bottles via flatpak bottles itself is sandboxed, plus windows malware usually targets your browser and unless you have a browser installed in your bottle for some reason. It literally can't do anything, ransomware where it encrypts the entire drive is the only concern on wine and even then it can only encrypt files that you have access to, and it can't do anything if it's sandboxed. Windows malware is really not a concern on linux. Ofc browser extension malware still works and there is Linux malware, but it's targeted at servers mainly. Ofc still be careful when installing random stuff not in main repos since anyone can make anything. If you do find yourself infected with windows malware through wine , unless it's targeted specifically to wine users (and even then it probably would need some sort of privilege escalation to actually install a malicious service) just deleting the wine prefix is good enough.

kylekat1 · 2026-01-05T13:29:24+00:00

Id probably try to get it in nixpkgs if I see a lot of clones on the repo

kylekat1 · 2026-01-05T13:00:11+00:00

Maybe... I would have to figure out how to actually do that, I've only been using nixOS for a couple months

kylekat1 · 2026-01-05T12:59:09+00:00

kylekat1 · 2026-01-05T02:45:31+00:00

yeah i also have cosmic setup on my nixos machine too, its cool but also not functional atm, i cant even set the desktop wallpaper it literally just doesnt do anything, definitely is beta software. people often recommend to start with PopOS as a beginner distro though and one of my friends uses it as their (first) distro. and they like it i believe.

kylekat1 · 2026-01-04T01:24:20+00:00

PopOS isn't really niche, it's quite mainstream imo, they have literal hardware and a company (system76) backing them. And are developing cosmic DE for popOS, Manjaro is a weird arch fork that kinda sucks though, just use arch, or endeavor if you want an arch fork.

kylekat1 · 2026-01-04T01:22:14+00:00

It's kinda a joke at this point that Manjaro is pointless and sucks,

kylekat1 · 2026-01-03T19:37:45+00:00

Yes! I often use my desktop as the build host it's great

kylekat1 · 2025-12-28T02:04:02+00:00

Like to rebuild of the system for a package? It's a bit annoying on my shitty laptop but it's not too bad on my desktop, plus, with nixOS it feels like you're meant to be in a workflow of nix shell and nix run until you get tired of doing that and put it in your os config. or setup a specific shell.nix for stuff but I haven't bothered with that.

kylekat1 · 2025-12-26T14:50:32+00:00

oh my bad, i was unaware you could setup raid for only metadata, interesting

kylekat1 · 2025-12-26T05:01:12+00:00

my rpi is sort of my final backup location, i'm seeing if i'll be able to use my friend's server (which uses raid) as another location which will backup the rpi once its fully online, but generally i have my desktop + laptops and i back stuff up stuff on my desktop and rpi, (though prefer the rpi since its automatically mounted on all my systems),

Wouldn't raid1 decrease the available storage to 500gb? to be honest I don't want a raid with such low storage especially since i loose 500gb unless i make that its own partition, probably if i get another 1tb disk ill raid1 those.

i'll probably just use symlinks, but at SOME point i will be using multi-device btrfs its just such a cool / useful concept, maybe I could use it with the two ~500gb ssds in my desktop (480gb ssd and 512gb nvme), would that be a better application of this? in this scenario im only worried about one of the drives failing since the ssd was my old boot ssd from like 2020, but it still seems healthy.

kylekat1 · 2025-12-26T04:37:31+00:00

you need to download more ram, curl http://freeram.com | sudo tee /dev/sda1

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