Quoted snippet of Darrion Burgess from BALUG-Talk thread
https://lists.balug.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/balug-talk@lists.balug.org…
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> to start, the easiest way to ease into is using the windows subsystem
> for linux (WSL) so you can try out different distributions using
> the windows terminal.
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> Its even sophisticated enough to have a wayland compositor at this
> point so you can even run GUI apps from the linux containers.
Besides WSL, another good(IMHO) means of more easily running Linux distros
w/in MS-Windows is to use Oracle VirtualBox
Quoting its main site https://www.virtualbox.org/ :
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VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualization
software for x86_64 hardware (with version 7.1
additionally for macOS/Arm), targeted at laptop,
desktop, server and embedded use.
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The VirtualBox 7.1.6 platform packages dwonloads for Windows and other OS
hosts can be found at https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
Am concurrently attending both the in-person and Jit.si Meet virtual
meetups of the Berkeley Linux Users Group https://berkeleylug.com/ -- and
am using VirtualBox for Debian GNU/Linux 12.x 'Bookworm' as hosting OS on
a second laptop.
VBox works great and is more [ful]filling! :-D
-A
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hello Dan and Michael,
Thanks again for putting on the meeting. It was wonderful to meet you both and I look forward to having more conversations with you all about the topics that interest you.