yayy I was able to get AMD-V working with VirtualBox today! I had to disable some WSL-related Windows services apparently, because otherwise Windows will claim AMD-V for itself, even when I’m not using it, and VirtualBox won’t be able to use it at all

now it’s so much nicer to use KDE in my Arch VM

… to be honest, I’m not actually sure what to do with this VM now that it I have it running properly. like, there’s not really anything that Linux does that my Windows install can’t do, as far as I know. the only reason I want to learn Linux is so that I won’t be totally reliant on Windows once the rugpull happens. maybe I’ll see if I can get a comfortable workflow set up, as if I’m going to use this as my main OS, just to see if I can