migrating from Windows 7

[Slade Watkins]

Paul,

On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 12:02 PM Paul Smith <paul at mad-scientist.net> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2021-11-07 at 20:09 -0500, Slade Watkins wrote:
> > I'm not familiar with KVM but I've heard of it floated around at
> > least once so I'm going to read into it. It might be fun to try
> > something new that isn't VMware. (I enjoy tinkering)
>
> If you install virt-manager you'll get an OK GUI interface kinda-sorta
> similar to VMWare that will let you create, manage, and delete virtual
> machines using KVM/QEMU.
>
> If you're familiar with how it's done in VMWare you'll likely not have
> too much trouble with this.
>
> The only trick is that you'll have to add yourself to a POSIX group
> (and log out and back in) to avoid permissions errors.  I believe there
> are docs on the web covering this else let us know.

This sounds like fun, I enjoy trying out stuff like this. I'll have to
check it out for sure.

>
>
> RE: Gnome: agreed please choose for yourself.  There are a lot of vocal
> people on this list who trash Gnome whenever the subject arises but
> there are also a lot of us who think modern Gnome works well.
>
> There are two important things to know about Gnome these days: first,
> you can get access to a lot of customization by installing the Tweak
> Tool application.  Second, Gnome provides a large Extensions ecosystem
> which lets you customize the experience in many ways.  So rather than
> something like KDE where all the knobs and dials are part of the base
> system, with Gnome you install extensions to customize things.

Everyone has an opinion. It is what it is.

I didn't know GNOME had Extensions but a quick search on the web led
me to the full library and whoa! It's exciting for me to see so much
customizability be available just like _that_.

Thanks for letting me know about all of this! I really do appreciate it :)

             -slade