It’s also great for learning purposes and to just try something new.

Now, why would you want to do this? Well, there are a few reasons, the main one is to test another operating system or program in another environment without affecting your main computer. Operating System Version - Microsoft Windows 10 (32-bit or 64-bit). You’re basically running another computer inside your computer. Before downloading and installing Ubuntu on windows 10 using VirtualBox, the following requirements are essential. Both hosts are running Oracle Virtualbox 5.2. However, on the Ubuntu 18 host runs ridiculously slow, ya know, cant even use it. The machine runs fine on the Windows host. A VM or “virtual machine” is essentially an emulated computer. I created a Windows 10 Virtualbox VM on Windows 10 host. If you’re new to Linux and want to get your toes wet, but don’t want to live boot (article here), a VM is the next best thing. If someone has gotten into Linux, odds are their first distro was Ubuntu. Ubuntu has been around for over 16 years now and a lot of work was put into it to make it widely compatible and user friendly. When sometimes you need to run more than one computer at a time.īy far one of the most popular and beginner-friendly Linux operating systems is Ubuntu and for good reason.

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