I have a friend thats setting up linux (ubuntu) on his machine. He has a windows installation. I personally use mac as my primary OS, but I’ve had a linux partition on my machine as well, and I’m having a slightly hard time giving him good advice as to what solution he should choose when setting up linux (I don’t even know how I would partition a disk on a windows machine to prep it for dual booting).

My question is quite simple: What are the pros/cons of WSL vs. Dual Booting vs. Virtualbox, both with regards to setup and with regards to usage?

  • Possibly linuxEnglish
    12·
    3 months ago

    Virtual box is slow. Install Windows in a KVM based VM instead

    • Antithetical@lemmy.deedium.nl
      7·
      3 months ago

      This is the best answer. I’ve been doing it for years at work. Dual-booting is just very inconvenient and WSL(2) is the worst of both worlds.

      Install Linux on the machine and keep windows in a nice secure kvm-based cage where it can do less damage.