Yeah I installed that one you’re thinking of.

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    I switched to Linux last year and in comfortably settled into Arch and now I’m to interested in it to try other distros even though I’m very curious to try…

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      It’s super easy to start a VM to try.

      Just install qemu (and optionally enable KVM), then to run eg. Ubuntu installer:

      qemu-system-x86_64 \
        -enable-kvm \
        -m 2G \
        -cpu host \
        -smp 2 \
        -cdrom /path/to/ubuntu-24.04-desktop-amd64.iso \
        -hda ubuntu-disk.qcow2 \
        -boot d \
        -vga virtio \
        -display gtk
      

      After you install it, run the VM:

      qemu-system-x86_64 \
        -enable-kvm \
        -m 2G \
        -cpu host \
        -smp 2 \
        -hda ubuntu-disk.qcow2 \
        -boot c \
        -vga virtio \
        -display gtk
      

      Or use libvirt, like a layer on top to make things much simpler. I use virt-manager for GUI and virsh on command line.