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I would like to try out Linux again. Which VM software should I use?

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You could use VirtualBox, free and simple to use. For home use it makes little difference which one you use and performance differences are negligible. As far as I can see the CPU supports hardware virtualization support (VT-d and VT-x), just be sure to enable it in BIOS in case it's disabled by default.

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Simple enough. I've got an old Windows box, and I'm going to try and breathe more life into it with Linux... But I don't know which distro I want to use. So, I figure I can try out a few different Linux distros using a VM, but...

 

Should I use VMWare, or is there a better alternative I should look at? System specs are: Haswell Xeon E3 1280V3, 32GB of DDR3, Maxwell 980 GPU, and 3 monitors, all 1080p.

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You could use VirtualBox, free and simple to use. For home use it makes little difference which one you use and performance differences are negligible. As far as I can see the CPU supports hardware virtualization support (VT-d and VT-x), just be sure to enable it in BIOS in case it's disabled by default.

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VirtualBox is probably the easiest and quickest to get running to just test different distros. Others (Hyper-V, VMWare, etc) might require some additional tweaking to get working properly.

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Just now, Eigenvektor said:

You could use VirtualBox, free and simple to use. For home use it makes little difference which one you use and performance differences are negligible. As far as I can see the CPU supports hardware virtualization support (VT-d and VT-x), just be sure to enable it in BIOS in case it's disabled by default.

Sounds good to me, thank you.

 

Just now, jj9987 said:

VirtualBox is probably the easiest and quickest to get running to just test different distros. Others (Hyper-V, VMWare, etc) might require some additional tweaking to get working properly.

Hm good point. I'll give VirtualBox a shot, and go from there.

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"If you have a monitor, look at that monitor with your eyeballs." ~ Jake, 2022

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