Only an issue if you don’t disable fast shutdown on Windows. A hibernated system might get surprised if another OS moves files about while it was asleep.

Yeah that’s right.

I have a ten year old i7 with 16gb so I don’t notice it much, but anything less would feel the pain. And yeah it can be slow in some apps (grid connect) yet flies along with Zen pinball.

Probably not what you want, but BlueStacks might suit. For poddies alone it might not be worth it, but if you have other uses as well it might be worth it. (For example, eBay’s $5 discount for ordering with the app.)

I’ll have another look. Didn’t seem to be an option to have it on a Windows guest when I installed it.

Same.

The lack of graphics acceleration is a bit painful though.

VirtualBox won’t work on Fedora 40 AFAICT, and once installed it can’t be uninstalled.

No, but VNC will work. It just doesn’t have sound.

Mostly just using Rustdesk or Nomachine, or a remote desktop client for best results.

Nice. I use older lappies to remote control my i7 machine. They can be fairly good dumb terminals.

Ok.

It’s not an option out if the box for me on Fedora 40 but maybe it’s because I started on 39 and upgraded later.

Because it can’t hibernate? (But then, not sure which distros can.)

S3 (hibernate) is conspicuously absent in many distros.

All the red dots look like some kind of GPU failure. I think the TPM error is a symptom of a bigger hardware issue that is insurmountable.

A live cd or usb might help as others have stated.

Spacedesk does this.

Already starting to happen a bit.

The AI only fools us into thinking it’s intelligent because it picks the most likely text response based on what it’s read before. But often, the output is confidently wrong as it’s really just a parlor trick.

Now, since it’s starting to ingest more if it’s own output, the definition of ‘what is the most likely response’ has been poisoned a little from ingesting that formerly wrong response.

Add in all the blog spam, the fake but funny reddit answers etc, and the system - which doesn’t actually think - starts to get more and more deranged.

I don’t know how.

Perhaps unscrew the mouse and disconnect the wires going to the scroll wheel instead?

I’m happy with it except for the inability to hibernate out of the box. Same for most distros though I think?

Thanks for that.

Yes I did some research. Certainly you can access Google Drive in Gnome quite easily. It works pretty well if you’re online and on a decent connection.

There are third party paid tools available to do the background syncing etc if needed.

Thanks for the clarification re Chrome OS. I never really thought of it as an actual usable OS alternative to Linux as it seems too locked down to be useful.

Thanks for caring @warmaster.

I don’t mind the downvotes - it’s part of life and I did kinda go off on a tangent which some people wouldn’t have appreciated.

Still, the lack of a proper Google Drive (in my case) sync feature that has offline support is an impediment to migrating away from Windows. I’m a little puzzled as to why Google doesn’t support it, yet they do a Mac version which is sort-of Linux. Maybe because there’s so many Linux implementations?

Bugger. Was hoping it was a sync upgrade for cloud storage providers.

Thank you for this. I appreciate your effort.