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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I've found VirtualBox to work quite
well for running Linux under Windows. It's not as smooth as
running Windows under a Linux virtualization host, but it works.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Warm Regards,<br>
Kyle Maas</div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/30/22 21:21, Grand Rapids Linux
Users Group wrote:<br>
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<div dir="auto">Have a look through this to see if it might meet
your daughter’s needs. </div>
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<div dir="auto">“Install Ubuntu on WSL2 on Windows 11 with GUI
support”</div>
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<div dir="auto">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
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<div dir="auto">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.</div>
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<div dir="auto">And that may be another solution: get a
Chromebook and enable the Linux Development Environment.</div>
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<div dir="auto">It all depends on her use cases.</div>
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<div dir="auto">Regards,<br>
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PM Grand Rapids Linux Users Group <<a
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a quick look online, it’s not clear what WSL2 does. It
doesn’t look like a VM.<br>
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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>
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Eric Beversluis<br>
Short fiction at <a href="http://www.ericbeversluis.com"
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On April 30, 2022 at 18:04:43, Grand Rapids Linux Users
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> The immediate question is, what is the use case?<br>
> <br>
> But in the absence of an answer to that, VirtualBox
with Vagrant works.<br>
> Not great, but good enough.<br>
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> Is there any reason not to use WSL2?<br>
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> Or if doing development, Cloud9 on AWS works well.<br>
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> Good luck and let us know how things go.<br>
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> Regards,<br>
> - Robert<br>
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> On Sat, Apr 30, 2022 at 1:16 PM Grand Rapids Linux
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> > My daughter wants to install a VM app and linux on
her windows box. I<br>
> > haven’t kept up. Is VirtualBox still the way to go
for Win10 or 11?<br>
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> > Eric Beversluis<br>
> > Short fiction at <a
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