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Could running a VM help me organise my computer better? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I use my computer for so many things and I have about 200 applications on my computer. I don't know why, but it bothers me that everything happens on this one machine as well as seeing so many app icons (even grouped into folders). It's not an option, but I'd prefer to have dedicated computers for broad categories of tasks (Audio DAW, video editing, bash scripting, web dev, gaming, system stuff like disk space visualisation, web apps for social media and video sites, games, communications, office, music and film.

So I was thinking of installing something like openSUSE in a VM on my iMac. But I'm not sure if it's a good idea. Putting CPU intensive applications onto the VM is pointless since they'll struggle more. But putting convenient apps on the VM seems like a mistake too because it means that quick utilities like calendar, voice memos, alarms, contacts etc become inconvenient.

Anyway. I miss the days when all these functions weren't service by the same hardware and screen. Does anyone who can relate have any ideas?

One thing I've done is have my music served by Navidrome on a headless server.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have about 200 applications on my computer

How many do you actually use?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Many of them only get used once per year, but when I’m asked to produce something with them I need to be ready.

Anything I haven’t used in a year gets archived, generally. something like FTP clients (which I rarely use) have passwords etc stored so I don’t want to get rid of those because the setup again would be tedious.

There are about 30 Apple apps that are built in that I’d love to get rid of but can’t, eg Stocks and Chess. They can’t be uninstalled.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm afraid to ask, how often do you reboot your computer?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

Haha, every two or three days.