<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">For a fully functional linux server on Win10, this is the quickest and freest way to go:<div class=""><a href="https://windows101tricks.com/run-ubuntu-on-windows-10/" class="">https://windows101tricks.com/run-ubuntu-on-windows-10/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If she needs an X windows environment to work in, she could launch vnc server within. For a full VM, VMWare player personal free use is good, and VirtualBox is also fairly functional on Windows. I think Windows has a free personal use native hypervisor on it, but I haven’t run windows desktop on metal in 2 decades.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-Van<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Apr 30, 2022, at 16:00, Grand Rapids Linux Users Group <<a href="mailto:grlug@grlug.org" class="">grlug@grlug.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">From a quick look online, it’s not clear what WSL2 does. It doesn’t look like a VM.<br class=""><br class="">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.<br class=""><br class="">Eric Beversluis<br class="">Short fiction at <a href="http://www.ericbeversluis.com" class="">www.ericbeversluis.com</a><br class=""><br class="">On April 30, 2022 at 18:04:43, Grand Rapids Linux Users Group (<a href="mailto:grlug@grlug.org" class="">grlug@grlug.org</a>) wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">The immediate question is, what is the use case?<br class=""><br class="">But in the absence of an answer to that, VirtualBox with Vagrant works.<br class="">Not great, but good enough.<br class=""><br class="">Is there any reason not to use WSL2?<br class=""><br class="">Or if doing development, Cloud9 on AWS works well.<br class=""><br class="">Good luck and let us know how things go.<br class=""><br class="">Regards,<br class="">- Robert<br class=""><br class="">On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 1:16 PM Grand Rapids Linux Users Group <<br class=""><a href="mailto:grlug@grlug.org" class="">grlug@grlug.org</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">My daughter wants to install a VM app and linux on her windows box. I<br class="">haven’t kept up. Is VirtualBox still the way to go for Win10 or 11?<br class=""><br class="">Eric Beversluis<br class="">Short fiction at <a href="http://www.ericbeversluis.com" class="">www.ericbeversluis.com</a><br class=""><br class="">--<br class="">grlug mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:grlug@grlug.org" class="">grlug@grlug.org</a><br class="">https://shinobu.grlug.org/mailman/listinfo/grlug<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote>--<br class="">grlug mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:grlug@grlug.org" class="">grlug@grlug.org</a><br class="">https://shinobu.grlug.org/mailman/listinfo/grlug<br class=""><br class=""></blockquote><br class="">-- <br class="">grlug mailing list<br class=""><a href="mailto:grlug@grlug.org" class="">grlug@grlug.org</a><br class="">https://shinobu.grlug.org/mailman/listinfo/grlug<br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>