What is your experience with Linux?

[Deleted member 44219]

For anyone who's interested in learning how to use Linux, but doesn't want to risk losing their Windows installation - consider downloading something like VirtualBox and running a Linux VM. Linux works pretty well in a virtual machine and should be good enough to get a feel for it.

I did try running Ubuntu in Virtualbox but it never seemed to work. I ended up using Lubuntu 16.04 instead and it was quite slow.

Now that isn’t to say Linux itself is slow, most likely it’s the VM. I’ve got my eye on Dual-Booting right now.

 

[edenwax]

For anyone who's interested in learning how to use Linux, but doesn't want to risk losing their Windows installation - consider downloading something like VirtualBox and running a Linux VM. Linux works pretty well in a virtual machine and should be good enough to get a feel for it.

I did try running Ubuntu in Virtualbox but it never seemed to work. I ended up using Lubuntu 16.04 instead and it was quite slow.

Now that isn’t to say Linux itself is slow, most likely it’s the VM. I’ve got my eye on Dual-Booting right now.

Hmmm I wonder why it was slow. I guess it depends on the machine.

Dual-booting is a good time too. I'm sure Ubuntu has an "Install along-side Windows" option where it'll allow you to resize your Window partition. I did that to my laptop with Solus.

 

[Deleted member 44219]

For anyone who's interested in learning how to use Linux, but doesn't want to risk losing their Windows installation - consider downloading something like VirtualBox and running a Linux VM. Linux works pretty well in a virtual machine and should be good enough to get a feel for it.

I did try running Ubuntu in Virtualbox but it never seemed to work. I ended up using Lubuntu 16.04 instead and it was quite slow.

Now that isn’t to say Linux itself is slow, most likely it’s the VM. I’ve got my eye on Dual-Booting right now.

Hmmm I wonder why it was slow. I guess it depends on the machine.

Dual-booting is a good time too. I'm sure Ubuntu has an "Install along-side Windows" option where it'll allow you to resize your Window partition. I did that to my laptop with Solus.

Funnily enough, I'd say that my PC has some pretty good Specs for a Laptop. I guess it wasn't really designed for Virtual-Machines unless that there was something that I did wrong.

I did enjoy using the Lubuntu VM but that isn't to say that I'll use Lubuntu if I ever switch. I've mainly got my eye on Mint and Fedora.

And yes, Ubuntu does let you run it alongside Windows. I'm not sure about other Distros but I'm assuming that they do too.

 

[Ghost]

If you're having serious issues - on virtual machine or separate / full install - it could be driver problems. Unfortunately Linux relies on the user downloading the proper drivers after install to make sure it all works with the hardware.

 

[mav3n]

It's not hard to dual boot. Just shrink your partition for the Linux install and use that partition during the install of Linux and setup your swap, home and root partitions during the install to use the partition you created while shrinking. You could also just spin up a VM if your CPU supports virtualization. You might need to enable it in the BOIS before it'll work.

 

[Azareal]

I did try running Ubuntu in Virtualbox but it never seemed to work. I ended up using Lubuntu 16.04 instead and it was quite slow.

Now that isn’t to say Linux itself is slow, most likely it’s the VM. I’ve got my eye on Dual-Booting right now.

Anything to do with virtualisation is generally slow, unless you have a lot of resources to throw at it.

 

[overcast]

The way windows updates break things, it's terrible idea to dual boot.

 

[Deleted member 45866]

I'm currently running GNU/Linux Mint 19.2 right now and I've definitely gained some Experience with the GNU/Linux [Debian Family] of Distros.

I'm quite good with the Terminal and I actually like working with the Terminal. As for DE, I'm currently running MATE on it yet I do prefer GNOME. I mainly do Programming and that with GNU/Linux. And it's great for Programming in my Opinion. I haven't had any Issues with it either(Probably because it's Mint) and there have been no Issues with speed either so far. I also love how customizable everything is. I've made it so that all of the Icons are from the older Versions of GNU/Linux Mint.

Overall, I absolutely love GNU/Linux. I'd quite like to get into other Distros soon. Primarily Debian and Fedora. I don't plan to go back to Windows anytime soon. Although, I'll have to unfortunately use Windows when I'm in a building that uses Windows : (

 

[overcast]

I always wanted to avoid the Ubuntu because if I want to remove the defaults, it was harder to work with. Like we are using old version of say ruby or python because the system had LTS.