Questions about Ubuntu 18.04 live/install ISO

[Robert Heller]

At Mon, 18 Feb 2019 11:39:54 +0100 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On Sat, 16 Feb 2019 at 15:52, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> >
> > OK, I tried creating a VM on another laptop (same make and model) running
> > CentOS 7 -- this *seems* to work,
> 
> Forgive me if I am asking an obvious question, but what if you were to
> flip the scenario on its head.
> 
> What is the reason for using such an old version of CentOS?
> Would that function be something you could run in a VM?
> So put a newer version of the Linux distro of your choice on the
> hardware, and run the old CentOS in a VM? Or even in a container, if a
> particular kernel version is not critical?

I don't like the Ubuntu GUI.  (And don't really like a lot of things about 
Ubuntu in general, but that is neither here nor there.)  I want an OS I can 
actually use on an everyday basis that does what I want.  I ended up 
installing Ubuntu 18.04 as a second bare-metal OS -- my laptop is now dual 
boot (my laptop is not really able to do hardware virtualization very well).

Now I need to deal with Ubuntu 18.04, which is almost as hard to use as 
mess-windows out of the box.


> 
> P2V conversion is significantly easier with Linux than with Windows,
> as there is no activation/licensing etc.
> 
> > but I am having trouble logging in.  I don't
> > really want to mess with the GUI, but really just want to login at one the
> > alternitive "black" consoles (eg Alt-Ctrl-F2).  What is the guest user login
> > name (and password, if any)?
> 
> AFAIK you can't. This is a GUI-only feature.
> 
> The graphical display manager is faking a guest account; really it
> creates one, lets you log in, then destroys it when you log out. The
> account isn't "there" the rest of the time.
> 

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