Hi everyone!

I’m a happy Gnome user on Fedora 38 on my Surface Go 1. Still, as I’m not an experienced Linux user, I’d want to discover some other distros and some other DE like KDE.

I’m planning on installing a distro with KDE on Gnome Boxes, but I wanted to know if there was a way to export it and make it a real OS (no VM) at one point.

To get to the point where I had my perfect workstation installation, it took me quite some time and I wouldn’t want to waste my time creating my perfect VM and not make it real at one point.

I don’t know if it could be done by cloning my virtual disk with Clonezilla for instance.

I’m sorry if my question ain’t clear, it’s just that I may not have the right vocabulary to talk about such things.

  • krey@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    yeah, that works. just small problems like maybe fixing the boot loader/efi or fstab because disks are enumerated differently or propietary drivers missing. you can also likely just export package manager selections, /etc, /var and your home dir as tarballs to change a fresh install of the same distro into yours.

    i also did the reverse: on a dual boot gentoo+debian with 2 HDs, i installed vmware in gentoo and configured the HD of the debian install as HD in the VM and it ran very well. the linux kernel autodetects all drivers at boot anyway. same for X or Wayland nowadays. (long ago, it was different and you would have needed to swap 2 X configs, for example, but nowadays it’s all very flexible and dynamic)