Advanced users, once again, can resort to the terminal for finer control. The GUI for it is just alright – yes, it is basic, but that’s all basic users need. While I agree with you in that terminal is the way to go with updates, a GUI is still helpful for new users. Offering it directly, in the installer itself, to an entry-level user would be overwhelming for them.

I can see how having /home on a different partition would be handy, but those that need one could symlink/batch copy to their destination. A third partition would have to be created by an advanced user, which is alright, considering that again, most basic users would not need /home on another partition. Do the new dailies really only support ext4? GParted allows you to create other filesystems, and a release back from…September, if I remember right, would work with a number of filesystems…True, there is only the option for root and/or swap. Perhaps it does lag behind the power of Calamares and Anaconda, but to the starting end user they won’t tell the difference. Read More.Installers, as long as they do their job and they do it well, don’t matter to some end users. I had used VMware in the past (which is a paid software) and VirtualBox is, to me superior on any aspect and it's free. It's available on all major platform and support all sorts of OS. Overall: Overall, VirtualBox is a great tool for virtualization. It doesn't take long but it's annoying and I don't understand why the Extension Pack is not included in the mainstream update anyway. Everytime I have an update of VirtualBox (which I don't usually notice at first), it will require you to go on the VM website, download the new Extension Pack and install it before you can actually start you VirtualBox session. I had done that a few time as Windows keep swelling on my guest machine.Ĭons: One of the majors cons I have with VirtualBox (on Linux) is the handling of the VM VirtualBox Extension Pack. It is also fairly easy to expand the disk capacity of a virtual system. The bi-directional handling of the files and shared folders between host and guest machines is very easy and smooth.

I haven't experienced any major issue so far in the years I'm been using it. I'm using the later and you can run pretty much all type of systems on it (DOS, Windows, Mac, Solaris, and Linux). Pros: VirtualBox is available on pretty much all the majors platforms including Windows, Mac, and Linux.

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