What is even the point of running linux in a virtual machine?

tfw to intelligent; to run linnux in a vm

what is even the point of running linux?

>>57254889
To try it out for the first time before actually installing it or you're doing this for server purposes.

isolation
resource allocation
security
testing
...

>>57254889
Not ruining their actual machines.

>>57254889
If you want to run both Linux and Windows and don't want to have to reboot continually, one of them has to be in the VM. If you're going to be gaming with Windows, it makes more sense for Linux to be the VM because you don't have that kind of direct hardware access in a VM. VMs are easier to change out and swap around too, which is handy when you try out 80 different Linux distros searching in vain for the one that works.

Big downside to running Linux in a VM though is that the VM support software tends to be extremely unreliable and tedious to install when compared with a Windows VM, especially when it comes to getting shared folders to work. It's even worse than what you can usually expect from Linux.

>>57254889
Some folks want to keep their current OS and they don't want to dual boot.

>>57255198
>what is GPU passthrough

>>57254889
The only reason would be to test out the OS before actually installing it.

>>57254909
I guess OP is too dumb for servers.

>>57254889

Sandboxing. Snapshotting to make system developers' lives easier. Staging environments.