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by rileymat2 1172 days ago
Is this a problem?

I am sure it is not a common workflow, but I have done most of my work inside VMS pretty much exclusively for years.

It makes it so easy to freeze the state of a project, do backups, quick snapshots. Archive finished projects. Removes any fear of upgrading. Keeps work clean, I need to know project dependencies when starting a new one on a fresh VM.

It keeps my base system very barebones with respect to software installed. I can also get up and running with a new host machine upgrade by simply copying the vms to the new host.

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What do you use for virtualization? And what do you use for graphics? (example Libvirt/VNC)