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Virtual Box
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Compatible with Many Operating Systems
It works for Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD, and many others.
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Lacks video performance
Virtualbox has a hard cap of 256MB of video memory. This could make newer operating systems run slower.
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Beginner friendly
A virtual machine can be set up in minutes if a ISO file to load is already available.
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Minimal CPU customization
You can only enable/disable certain features. You cannot cap the speed of the CPU, which is required to run systems such as Windows 95.
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Works well and fast for Windows host and Linux guest
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Free and open source
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Many free images available
Though most are linux flavors at https://virtualboxes.org/ Oracle's virtualbox site has others.
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Can do snapshots
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A lot of customization
VirtualBox has multiple virtualization options. Each one may be tailored to the guest operating system’s needs. This makes it especially good on virtualizing older systems, such as DOS, obscure distros, etc.
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Flatpak
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Cross-distribution
You can install flatpak packages on any distro you want.
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Bloated
Due to the way Flatpack handles packaging, this can lead to a large cache being created which quickly inflates to unreasonable sizes. Not only this, but using flatpack requires a large chunk of space to be reserved for it's own file hierarchy.
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fast
searching, installing and updating are faster than others in my experience
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Difficult to export packages
It is difficult and convoluted to export installed packages and move to another system.
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Doesn't bog system down like snaps.
Plus it's not proprietary.
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Doesn't work well with CLI programs
Invoking CLI programs can be a pain. From the weird reverse DNS package names to difficulty in easily managing container environment.
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Application sandboxing
All applications are limited to a set of predefined permissions, enhancing privacy and security.
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A well-written documentation
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Flexible runtime management
You can install a lot of runtimes for different apps, making applications a lot more compatible while still allowing some applications to share their runtimes.
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Initial Maintainer:
Alex Larsson
Default Repository:
FlatHub.org
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