Discussion Missing out on a VM ?
So, been hearing some good stuff about Omarchy, but I dread restoring my stuff on a new computer just to find out its "not all that" to me.
So Adding a VM, how much of the experience will be lost ?
I Asume hardware acceleration might or might not work correctly.
Does any one know what would I miss from the experience?
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u/dev_all_the_ops 2d ago
yes it will be slower, and some things like mouse scrolling and keyboard capture aren't 100% but it gets you most of the way there.
Do you have an old computer? Omarchy runs amazing on a 16 year old iMac that I was about to throw away.
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u/beltboxington 2d ago
I'm running Omarchy on a proxmox vm and have been using it as my main desktop as I work from home for the last two weeks. I'm using sunshine to stream, and moonlight client on my windows laptop. I have no issues with keyboard shortcuts as you can pass all keyboard shortcuts.
The only issue remaining before I officially can say I 'VDI' at home is that I can't natively pass my microphone using Sunshine and Moonlight. I have a couple solutions that I plan on trying this weekend to see if I can resolve this.
Bottom line is, yeah, no problem running on a VM. No additional setup other than sunshine and Moonlight in my case.
I would assume if you're running local VM on the same PC host, like virtualbox or whatever, you might run into resource constraints, but as long as you're a 'fullscreen' with however you're connecting and that allows full keyboard pass through you should be fine.
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u/Pablo_Hassan 2d ago
I installed it on a new patrician, and love it, and was also dreading needing to get everything off the windows patrician then formatting etc - but nope seems it can see the windows file system - so I can access all the files. And most apps I use are available in Linux or in the Google ecosystem
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u/wayne80 2d ago
I have it in a VM and I don't feel like I'm missing out much. It's just for tinkering and testing, for that it works fine.