Yeah since all the clever VM stuff made it into the kernel, which I think even Virtualbox makes use of these days, VMs are kinda amazing.

And yeah both KDE and Gnome are really good atm. If I couldn't use a tiler for some reason I'd be quite happy on Gnome.

I'm now running my home server on Proxmox with a load of VMs. Love it. Much better way of achieving what I want.

I tried a couple of other hypervisors back when nothing worked all that well, but settled on vb because it's free (afaik there's no paid version with extra mojo), available on different platforms with feature parity (except Windows can access gpu 3d rendering), and I've been using it for years.

Oh yeah it works well these days. Wasn't disparaging it!