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How to distro hop in a VM?
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I’m not an expert of virtualization but I’ve had a few VM in Gnome Boxes.
I use Fedora Workstation and I love Gnome and the way you switch between workspaces instead of having multiple windows in one workspace like you do on Windows.
I don’t know if I would really have discovered the Gnome workflow if I only had it installed in a VM. When doing the three fingers touchpad gesture in VM, it would bring me back to my normal Gnome installation, so I never really got to try KDE for real.
I guess if I really wanted to discover a distribution or a different desktop environment, it would be better to really commit as a VM just gives you a good sample.
I might be wrong as maybe some people know how to really isolate the VM from the real machine though..