Hey Guys.
After a month of dual boot with OpenSuse, I think it’s time to switch fully and use a Virtual Machine for Windows 10. I think I will settle for Debian 12 stable since I prefer Flatpaks for almost everything anyway. Tested it a little in virt manager and liked it better than Suse. But I’m not 100% sure about it. I have some questions:
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I plan to buy a Nvidia card in the near future because I use my PC a lot for 3D art and AMD is simply not there when it comes to rendering time. So another AMD card is not a option for me. But I heard a lot of bad stuff about Nvidia and Wayland not going well together in older drivers. Is Debian 12 “new” enough for the better driver support or will it be a headache?
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I have not much experience with virtual machines. Can I later move my Windows VM to another SSD?
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I used the debian network installer in my test vm, is there a option to enable non-free stuff from the very beginning? Or are there better installation methods?
Thanks in advance 🙂
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Debian is good, but if you use flatpak I recommend Fedora. They have (from my own experience) the best flatpak implementation. Although it varies from person to person
(Again, from my experience) Nvidia and Wayland works pretty well, even with the proprietary drivers. Debian has Wayland+Nvidia support since 12. see: https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Wayland
I don’t know about your other questions, sorry
Best advice so far.
I work with both, debian and fedora, and if you like flatpaks then stick with fedora.
For your win 10 VM, I prefer the KVM install guide written by the creators of winapps, you might not like winapps but their KVM guide is just awesome:
Nvidia drivers are fine for x11, kinda borked on wayland in my experience. I don’t see a reason you couldn’t move windows to another ssd, but it may want you to reactivate or just not work because windows can be like that. Non-free firmware should be enabled ootb so you should at least have wireless drivers to get other non-free stuff without too much hassle.
Just a heads up, virtual machines can have problems with gaming because they usually need a dedicated GPU (to the VM). I think I had success with virtualbox in the past though.
Nvidia and Wayland work when used in compatible desktop environments. GNOME and KDE Plasma are supported. Something like sway, for exapmle, doesn’t support Nvidia.
