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?

  • Deckweiss@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Depends on their specific needs, so they should probably jump into some Linux community and ask for themselves.

    My anecdotal evidence includes vastly different experiences.

    I have a friend who hates Linux desktop and exclusively uses it for running dev related stuff via WSL.

    Another who uses Linux desktop primarely, but dualboots Windows for certain games.

    And I am on Linux single boot and rarely use KVM (without GPU) for running my CNC or other software.