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That kinda stuff runs well in a VM. Not too GPU dependent, so you generally get very-near-native performance. The only problem I end up having is constantly blowing away my VMs, racking up too many new installs, and running afoul of key limits.

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Have you seen qubes os? [1] Obviously this would not work on OS X, but the concept is fascinating and definitely a different and unique approach at security and isolation.

1. https://www.qubes-os.org/

Qubes is great but be careful... I tried giving a specific usb port to a windows vm to play games with a joystick and accidentally gave all of my USB inputs to it, effectively locking myself out of dom0. Oops.

That's the UNIX philosophy.

    Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.

[0]: https://www.azquotes.com/quote/1293001

That looks really fun, thank you. I'm going to check this out.. maybe in a VM :D.

I really like these kinds of projects. NixOS and Fedora Silverblue are a couple others.

Qubes isn't designed to run in a VM, but it can.

I wanted to try running in a VM and actually have not considered believing bad performance. How is performance degradation - is it very very noticeable?

With the virtualization primitives in modern CPUs it's like 95%+ of native. GPUs are a total lost cause though, so you won't be playing games (unless you do GPU passthrough).

if you set the VM UUID + keep the MACs of the NICs the same it usually bypasses key limits

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