Hi all :)

I manage a handful of websites and their emails using the PortableApps suite on Windows, so have a separate browser and mail client for each one. This has worked well for years, but now I’m switching to Linux, Mint specifically. I’ve read that I can set up profiles on Firefox and probably Thunderbird, or maybe run separate instances with things like AppImages, but it sounds like it’s a messy solution, and could end up with me using the wrong profile by mistake

What I want to do is set up a virtual machine for each site, and have a completely separate instance of the programs, and hopefully a way to easily transfer the machines to other systems if needs be.

I’d prefer to use a Debian / Ubuntu based distro with Apt and the ‘Windows’ style desktop, as that’s what I’m already used to, but am I better off installing Mint and stripping it down, or is there something more suited to this?

Thanks in advance :)

    • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      3 months ago

      That looks good, thanks. I use Xubuntu on my media server at the moment, so I’m used to XFCE too :)

    • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 months ago

      Resource wise how does this compare to Lubuntu which is also Ubuntu based with XFCE?

      ISO wise it’s about 500MB smaller which is nice when I’m messing around with VMs.

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        3 months ago

        Lubuntu is (slightly) lighter, but lacking on software resources.

        Thus, i prefer Linux Lite.