@dragonarchitect @demicus AFAIK they explicitly removed #WiFi from #Proxmox (which is based off #Debian) because they only target #rackmount|able-hardware and consider WiFi & #Bluetooth as mere 'sidechannel attack vectors'…

• One could just get one of those cheap WiFi->Ethernet bridges if wired etherenet cabling isn't an option as a workaround.

Obviously their take makes sense in a #datacenter envoirment (pretty shure #vmware #ESXi and #Microsoft's #HyperV don't do WiFi either!) because homelabbers who can't even afford cheap Gigabit-#Ethernet ain't their customer audience.

• OFC that is annoying for those who don't have that luxury at hand!

• since disabling MS Defender & co, RAM usage still has remained comfortably in the 6x% range, with his MS Office running & four docs open, + VB Mint VM with FF & TB running
• however now i have also experienced what dad's been telling me about for several weeks; the damn [Mint] VM just randomly freezes, & has to be forcibly killed. I think it's not the fault of Mint per se, as today the other VB VM i'd created for him back in Jan, that i was taking for a run today, KFedora, also froze solid on me. i really do dislike VirtualBox!
• hence, it was with some motivated vigour that today i then pursued investigating the viability of Win10's Hyper-V.
• Got it working, created a Mint LMDE7 VM, set it all up just so, had it looking really swish, noted that it dropped the RAM usage ~5% compared to VB, ie, in low 60s% not mid 60s%... only then to find belatedly that... it's absolutely bloody useless! I simply could not solve how to share directories or clipboard with the win10 Host. Research strongly intimated that its native resource sharing capability pertains only to windoze VMs, not Linux ones... ffs OMZ, damnit. 🙄🤦‍♀️
• unexpectedly though, the additional research i did in trying to solve the preceding problem, serendipitously informed me of a feature i'd vaguely heard of but knew nothing about... wsl -- Windows Subsystem for Linux.
• worked out how to deploy it, created a Fedora43 CLI system, which manifests basically as a terminal, via which i installed gedit for proof of concept. Happily, the gedit GUI app then could be successfully launched, totes conveniently via its embedded launcher in the normal win10 Start Menu... & best of all, it runs just sitting there on the win10 desktop, not in any parent graphical enclosure as is the case with VMs... & its clipboard sharing works!
• encouraged, i repeated the process for both TB & FF, & they were equally successful.
• it's quite freaky; these Fedora-hosted GUI apps ostensibly look just as if they were ordinary windoze-based apps, but nope, they're Fedora-hosted... in win10.
• with this combo of Fedora-FF, Fedora-TB, & his various Office 2013 docs all running, total RAM usage was a delightful 42-47% 🎉 🥳 👯‍♀️
• i'm very much feeling my way here, this is all new to me, but afaict these penguin-apps should behave with stability, not prone to freezes, simply coz they're not in any VM which can freeze... 🤔🤷‍♀️
• afaict, fingers crossed, this radical latest development still keeps faith with the fundamental ethos of this long long long "DadsPooterProject"; all residual win10 apps that could not be removed, remain blocked by my Firewall settings from touching the internet, win10 Updates are disabled, & the only apps permitted to touch the internet are in Fedora via wsl, so... safe? [i mean, wrt Endof10] 🤔🤷‍♀️
• i don't wanna get too excited yet, coz the entire arc of my life tells me that crushing disappointment commonly lurks just around my corners... yet... surely i'm allowed to feel just a teensy bit chuffed now? Oh noooooooooooooooooo 💣 💥 🔥

#EndOf10 #DadsPooterProject #HyperV #WSL #WSL2 #WindowsSubsystemForLinux