What has keeping me back is that not all the programs I run will run on Linux, so I need to figure out how to properly allocate RAM and HardDrive space to a virtual machine running Windows.
I did that before in the past using virtual box, but the memory allocation process is completely foreign to me on Linux systems (as if I even managed to understand it on Windows when I got it to work there.)
Yeah I see. I'd imagine you only need to allocate 2 or 3 gigs to run a lite version of Linux. Then you just gonna make a decision on what's more important to you. Security vs ease of access to same programs. Shouldn't be a tradeoff but it is
Linux my friend. It's actually not anywhere near as hard. Google ubuntu and install on your laptop. It's the only way
I've been heavily considering it.
What has keeping me back is that not all the programs I run will run on Linux, so I need to figure out how to properly allocate RAM and HardDrive space to a virtual machine running Windows.
I did that before in the past using virtual box, but the memory allocation process is completely foreign to me on Linux systems (as if I even managed to understand it on Windows when I got it to work there.)
Yeah I see. I'd imagine you only need to allocate 2 or 3 gigs to run a lite version of Linux. Then you just gonna make a decision on what's more important to you. Security vs ease of access to same programs. Shouldn't be a tradeoff but it is