I'm just using it for curiosity's sake and to be more apt at using the command line on the raspberry pi without having to constantly be googling stuff.
Would like to get comfortable fiddling with network stuff and SSH etc.
I've currently got it running as a headless mumble server with the SSH port closed so it's pretty much locked down. It just seems more convenient to play around with this stuff on a VM as well.
I'm just using it for curiosity's sake and to be more apt at using the command line on the raspberry pi without having to constantly be googling stuff.
Would like to get comfortable fiddling with network stuff and SSH etc.
I'm still confused about what X is if you say I should kill it and use a stripped down window manager... I thought it just meant booting in to the console as per this:
http://ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/2014/01/boot-into-text-console-ubuntu-linux-14-04/