[GRLUG] virtual machine current rec

[Grand Rapids Linux Users Group]

Have a look through this to see if it might meet your daughter’s needs.

“Install Ubuntu on WSL2 on Windows 11 with GUI support”

https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/install-ubuntu-on-wsl2-on-windows-11-with-gui-support

However, if you want to get the full “Install Linux on bare hardware”
experience without dual booting or having another system, then, yes, you’ll
need a VM. And if you are just starting out and don’t know the difference
in VM hypervisor features and properties, VirtualBox is a good place to
start.

Once she’s comfortable, she can then flip it: install Linux on the hardware
and Windows in a VM.  Or not, and simply run Linux on the hardware and
connect to Office365 or to a virtual Windows desktop on Azure.  That
solution works for me with my Chromebook.

And that may be another solution: get a Chromebook and enable the Linux
Development Environment.

It all depends on her use cases.

Regards,
- Robert

On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 5:01 PM Grand Rapids Linux Users Group <
grlug at grlug.org> wrote:

> From a quick look online, it’s not clear what WSL2 does. It doesn’t look
> like a VM.
>
> Basically she wants to be able to use both Linux and Windows and
> installing Linux in a VM seemed to me the best way, preferable to dual boot.
>
> Eric Beversluis
> Short fiction at www.ericbeversluis.com
>
> On April 30, 2022 at 18:04:43, Grand Rapids Linux Users Group (
> grlug at grlug.org) wrote:
> > The immediate question is, what is the use case?
> >
> > But in the absence of an answer to that, VirtualBox with Vagrant works.
> > Not great, but good enough.
> >
> > Is there any reason not to use WSL2?
> >
> > Or if doing development, Cloud9 on AWS works well.
> >
> > Good luck and let us know how things go.
> >
> > Regards,
> > - Robert
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 1:16 PM Grand Rapids Linux Users Group <
> > grlug at grlug.org> wrote:
> >
> > > My daughter wants to install a VM app and linux on her windows box. I
> > > haven’t kept up. Is VirtualBox still the way to go for Win10 or 11?
> > >
> > > Eric Beversluis
> > > Short fiction at www.ericbeversluis.com
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