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Virtualbox VMs are pretty slow if they aren't configured for performance. OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is pretty nice for a constantly updated distro. It's really strong with KDE, if you like KDE.
Sounds like that group is hard to replace, I guess that's the nature of great communities, part of it is the good memories.
Main performance boosts in VB are:
Chipset: ICH9 Paravirtualization interface: minimal Graphics Controller: WMSVGA (max video memory: 128, or by hand in the config: 256) Storage Controller Type: virtio-scsi Networking Adapter Type: virtio-net
The rest can be recommended by Virtualbox.
I used KDE twice to give it a chance last year, well the last time I clicked on a theme to see it bigger. Then I wanted to leave to the theme regular area, no back button at all. I closed the theme area and went back and opened it and it was back to the detailed part for that theme. I literally had to reboot to get the program to run normal again then later I did it again forgetting or thinking it was a one time thing, same thing. KDE is out now. I'm looking at either LXDE or LXQT for my next trial run on a desktop since I never tried either of them or tried one on a distro that wouldn't boot to live or wouldn't install or wouldn't show a login screen which for linux is far to common lately.
As for the settings all but the minimal interface, older need a larger interface and the last time I tried I was only given 3:4 resolution options for my hdmi tv which really pissed me off. I did give it 16gb of ram and 4 cores of my cpu and 256gb of vram so I wasn't conservative at all in the resources area for the emulation and it still as a pain in the ass.
I think most of the problem is the amd motherboard itself and the fact I just found out my battery died on the motherboard that might be a factor thought I never shutdown after the install on it at all. I think once my batteries get delivered I'm going to have a much better fast system.
I never occurred to me that the batteries might be almost gone when I bought this new around 6 months ago but thinking about it the way tech is jimmy rigged to run that there may be more than the bios that depended on a strong battery or the bios was storing a setting or 2 that I wouldn't have thought would be stored there since I've had installs that run super fast but after I do a first reboot they slow down and likely attributed it to something in the update after install or the new kernel.
Well OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is really nice. Minimal emulation is still a lot slower than bare-metal, but at least it's a viable option. I think running qemu directly would give much better performance than virtualbox. I haven't spend the time to build a qemu command line though.
Not for virtual anything but I was looking at the Suse website earlier today. I tried it last about 3 years ago but I was way to newb and didn't have shit compared to the knowledge I've learned since then and it's supposed to be one of the most stable distro's out there.
So I find that a great suggestion, just worried it won't be easy to install proprietary drivers for my gtx1650.
You were not exagerating in the least. I installed Gecko the community xfce version of Tumbleweed Suse and it's super stable, fast, and unlike Manjaro and most linux when I search for software and choose install it actually installs no pamac quitting because the dependencies or the git page cannot be found. Thanks for the advice, this is my new daily driver unless something big I didn't notice yet is wrong but not one error so far. I think Yast is the big difference, much more polished than anything else I've used before.
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