I want to get into Arch Linux, but I don’t have that much experience and I feel like it’ll be easier to set it up in a virtual machine rathen than dual booting, I’ve used Oracle VirtualBox before but it’s very laggy. Are there any other VMs that aren’t as laggy, or do I just have a hardware issue?

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    1 year ago

    I’d say VirtualBox is still your best bet b/c of its well-polished user interface - ie unless you plan to play games.

    very laggy

    Had you installed “extension pack” & “guest additions”? If not, please do! They make a world of difference.

    Grab them for the version you’ve installed from VirtualBox downloads directory. Install Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-x.y.z.vbox-extpack on your machine and VBoxGuestAdditions_x.y.z.iso on your VM.

    For example, for version 7.0.10:

    HTH

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        1 year ago

        Here’s a decent guide on how to do it for an Ubuntu VM (instructions should apply to Arch too.) Since you’ll be manually downloading guest-additions, just skip the “prerequisites” section.

        An here’s a guide on how to install the extension pack.

        Pray, post here if you run into any troubles (you shouldn’t ✌️.)