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[simmerskool]

Do you have copy-paste from host to vm or both ways enabled? I mean clipboard sharing. It doesn't work for me on VMware linux vms even on the Ubuntu vm but works on all vms on VirtualBox.

no I do not use clipboard between Host Guest. I keep Host isolated. (that's me). Other day I needed to move some files from Guest to Host, and I temp uploaded (stored) them in cloud, and did not hurt to keep a copy in cloud anyway. But I have used clipboard between Host & win10_Guests and it did work. I have yubi key and I can get vm_Guests to see yubi but never successfully for 2fa. There's alternatives to iphone 2fa so let it be in Guests.

 

[lokamoka820]

My MX Linux distro, latest Xfce desktop environment over rock-solid stable base:

 

[Divine_Barakah]

So in my experience. Linux Mint is the most suitable Linux distro if youre coming from Windows. It is fast and stable. Cinnamon DE is going to be very familiar. So I believe Linux Mint is a good start and when you become more experienced, you'll know by then where to look.

 

[simmerskool]

So in my experience. Linux Mint is the most suitable Linux distro if youre coming from Windows. It is fast and stable. Cinnamon DE is going to be very familiar. So I believe Linux Mint is a good start and when you become more experienced, you'll know by then where to look.

your experience is most likely more experienced than mine, but... I tried Mint w/cinnamon before Zorin and ended up not running it, although I don't remember why?? But right now, I prefer MX to Zorin... fwiw++ and MX is more of a linux experience than Zorin imo.

 

[lokamoka820]

your experience is most likely more experienced than mine, but... I tried Mint w/cinnamon before Zorin and ended up not running it, although I don't remember why?? But right now, I prefer MX to Zorin... fwiw++ and MX is more of a linux experience than Zorin imo.

I'm happy to hear that you like MX Linux, most people don't like how it looks, but it is very easy to configure and have very good helpful tools that make configuring it very simple.

 

[colin.p]

...and that is the beauty of linux. If you want to get real dirty by tinkering under the hood, you can. Or you can try a plethora of different distros to find one that is close to your dream OS. Your call.

Soon, you will come to the realization that they are all pretty well the same "under the hood" and you will be quite comfortable with any distro.

 

[lokamoka820]

...and that is the beauty of linux. If you want to get real dirty by tinkering under the hood, you can. Or you can try a plethora of different distros to find one that is close to your dream OS. Your call.

Soon, you will come to the realization that they are all pretty well the same "under the hood" and you will be quite comfortable with any distro.

Exactly, after a lot of testing and experimenting, I found that I prefer anything "apt" over others, so I have multi Debian/Ubuntu based distros installed with different desktop environment, so when I feel boring with one desktop, I move to the other one, or play with new features comes with new desktop release.

 

[colin.p]

^^^Ditto

 

[Gandalf_The_Grey]

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