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  • I probably wouldn’t describe it as similar, but virt-manager is fairly simple but powerful at the same time (like it will let you expose more advanced KVM/QEMU features like PCIe passthrough and similar).

    But like the other guy said, gnome boxes is very straight forward and probably more similar in it’s simplicity.

    They both use QEMU + KVM, so you can have both virt-manager and boxes installed at once, and I believe virt-manager (probably boxes too) easily let you use existing VirtualBox .vdi files, if you’ve got an existing VM you want to run. Also like I said before, KVM is already mainlined into the Linux kernel, so you don’t have to install sketchy kernel modules and stuff.

    I’ve only used VirtualBox once though, so I can’t really compare them.



  • I’m pretty sure there’s no difference between internal and external ext4 (at least how gnome disks handles it), so I think it’s just trying to make sure users don’t freak out when they format it as ext4 and think their data is all gone on Windows.

    Also when it’s grayed out you usually just have to install the fuse driver and file system tools, IIRC for exfat you install exfat-fuse and exfatprogs.


  • SteveTech@programming.devtoLinux@lemmy.mlSo... how to fix this?
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    If you’re using gnome disks, it hides the more Linuxy file systems behind an ‘Other’ option.

    Personally, for removable drives I prefer to use

    • ext4 for HDDs
    • f2fs for SSDs
    • exfat for Windows compatibility

    If it’s grayed out or you’re getting errors try searching up ‘how to format as [file system] in [Pop OS/Ubuntu/Linux]’, you might need some extra packages.


  • Okay so for whatever reason, turning Freesync on and off a bunch of times from the OSD and then replugging works until the next reboot, so I’ve dumped the working EDID and I’m trying to figure out how to load it at boot (but I’m not having much luck).

    For reference, the monitor is a Samsung LC24RG50.

    Edit: Got the EDID loaded, KDE says it’s supported, but VRRTest doesn’t really seem to do anything.

    Edit 2: Other games work fine.









  • I actually might be having a similar issue on one of my servers, every 5 to 10 seconds the hypervisor will just freeze for less than a second, and it doesn’t repeat characters but it still makes typing in SSH super annoying. I did find using irqstat that during that time, interrupts from the ahci kernel module would spike into the 50,000s, so I have a feeling it’s to do with that, but I haven’t really figured it out yet, since it somehow doesn’t actually seem to affect my VMs.

    Although it probably isn’t related considering switching to KDE fixed it for you, and I haven’t got display stuff installed.