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Is your main computer a Windows computer? A lot of people are recommending WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), but personally I think Hyper-V, Microsoft's hyper

by ahepp 4y ago

Is your main computer a Windows computer? A lot of people are recommending WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux), but personally I think Hyper-V, Microsoft's hypervisor, would be a better option. I suppose you would know best, but it's hard for me to imagine your laptop being unable to support this. You don't need to install any graphics, you can just SSH into your own VM as if it was a Linux server in the cloud (except it's, say, a 512mb ram, 8gb hdd, 1vcpu local vm)

cpach 4y ago
WSL2 is based on Hyper-V.
- ahepp 4y ago
  Yeah! To be clear, it's not for any kind of performance or tech stack reason. As you said, it's the same thing at the end of the day. Rather, in my opinion, making the underlying VM more obvious is probably a good thing for learning Linux.