![]() ![]() In an ideal situation you would want to go with separate devices, one device running Linux and the other running Windows. Even if you know its just because you're running on a VM, you will still start to hate the OS. Its great to try stuff out but you wouldn't want to be doing actual work on it. It will seem cool at first but then the lag will start to bother you. Running in a VM won't give you the same experience. ![]() Even though my company relies on Windows for our applications, and Active Directory and MS SQL, there's no way I can go back to Windows as my main desktop OS. Theses days I prefer Fedora for the desktop and CentOS for a server. I started a couple of years ago on Ubuntu 14.04, then 16.04 to learn Linux. These days I only have a couple of apps that are Windows only where I occasionally need that Windows VM. Install the Linux OS for real on the machine's hard drive, and use Windows inside a VM whenever you need it. Once you have the installation and update process down, and you are comfortable maneuvering around the OS, make a VM (P2V) of your Windows installation (minus the Linux VM) and put it aside. If something breaks, learn how to fix it. Then take a couple of hours to mess around an perform updates, install software and such. and learn how the installation process works. Install whatever flavor of Linux you are wanting to try in a VM first. ![]() I am going to throw my 2ยข in here, having been a Linux noob just a couple of years ago, after having been a Windows admin for 20+ years. ![]()
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