Nitrux 5.1 ends official support for virtual machines, focusing exclusively on physical hardware for performance, stability, and a tightly controlled system design.

The Nitrux team has announced the release of Nitrux 5.1, an immutable, systemd-free Debian-based Linux distro that bets on AppImage-based software delivery and ships with Hyprland as its default desktop environment.

The main (and slightly surprising) change is that the project no longer supports running the distribution as a guest operating system in virtual machines. While Nitrux will still boot under most hypervisors, VM-specific components such as SPICE integration, the QXL X.Org driver, and Hyper-V modules have been removed.

  • amateurcrastinator@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I wasn’t going to try this but why drop the support? I have to nuke my system to try this out or have a second PC… What is the purpose of this?

    • Tja@programming.dev
      2·
      3 days ago

      Simplicity of maintaining it, I’d guess. It will still work in a VM, they just remove some comfort features.