Hi all :)

I manage a handful of websites and their emails using the PortableApps suite on Windows, so have a separate browser and mail client for each one. This has worked well for years, but now I’m switching to Linux, Mint specifically. I’ve read that I can set up profiles on Firefox and probably Thunderbird, or maybe run separate instances with things like AppImages, but it sounds like it’s a messy solution, and could end up with me using the wrong profile by mistake

What I want to do is set up a virtual machine for each site, and have a completely separate instance of the programs, and hopefully a way to easily transfer the machines to other systems if needs be.

I’d prefer to use a Debian / Ubuntu based distro with Apt and the ‘Windows’ style desktop, as that’s what I’m already used to, but am I better off installing Mint and stripping it down, or is there something more suited to this?

Thanks in advance :)

  • stewie3128
    27·
    9 months ago

    Alpine is great for VM and containers… Light on resources because of musl.

    • eveninghere@beehaw.org
      2·
      9 months ago

      The weakness of Alpine is that anything relying on glibc probably won’t work. Yes, I know there’s glibc simulation, but that’s far from perfect.

    • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      It looks great, thanks :)

      I’m nojt sure whether I’m going to use it for this, as I haven’t had a chance to try the package manager yet, but I’m definitely going to be giving it a test drive, even if it’s only to see what it can do with such low requirements :)