Normal people do not run Emacs or build XMMS, a multimedia player, from source in a Linux Mint 5 virtual machine, but, my friends, I am not normal people.
FWIW, I’m listening to WFMT’s “Vince Guaraldi’s Christmas Gift to Jazz,” an hour-long program with some Guaraldi music and covers of his music for A Charlie Brown Christmas.
Now, why would I do such a silly thing?
Emacs is for writing. I’ve been doing some outlining and development work in it, and running it in a VM has some distraction-free advantages.
XMMS was a little bit of an experiment. The computer I’m writing this on is an Mini PC, and it’s a little low on the horsepower. I can’t have a browser open and play music at the same time… but a music player in an ancient (2008!) virtual machine runs without a hitch with the browser running, maybe because the VM is walled off.
It’s weird, but it works.