Best way to install and setup Linux and Windows on the same laptop..

[genesis]

Hi

 

I have purchased a DELL New Inspiron 14 5490 Laptop

Processor: 10th Generation Intel® Core™ i5-10210U Processor (6MB Cache, up to 4.2 GHz)

OS : Windows 10 Home Plus Single Language, English

Graphics: Intel® UHD Graphics with shared graphics memory

RAM : 8GB,4Gx1 + 4G onboard, DDR4, 2666MHz

RAM : 512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive

 

This laptop is not setup still and it is still in the box.I would like this be installed UBUNTU for python programming for a IT student. I am bit confused here as whether to install Windows first and then install Linux as host using virtualisation software such as VirtualBox\VMWARE\KVM ?

 

Or initialise windows first and then create another partition and install Linux on this partition ?

Please suggest which would be the best way to set up.. and any help much appreciated..

 

Thanks

[Arthur]

If the student needs to use both Windows and Linux I would probably keep Windows 10 on the laptop, enable WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) and download Ubuntu from the Microsoft Store.

 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10

 

WSL has multiple advantages including being faster to load than a VM and the student wouldn't need to reboot the laptop in order to switch OSs.

 

VSCode also has a really cool remote development extension for WSL if they plan on using that as their code editor.

 

https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/wsl

[Norphy]

Dual booting the laptop, installing both Windows and Linux on the laptop, would be my least favourite option. There are a few advantages in that the OS would have direct access to the hardware instead of going through a hardware abstraction later, which would make it work faster but to use the other OS, you’d have to reboot the machine which is annoying.

 

Dual booting would also take up more space on the storage, be more complicated to set up (you’d have to do things like disable SecureBoot), it would be harder to share data between the two Operating systems and less convenient to use because of the aforementioned rebooting

 

I think the best thing to do is to suck it and see, as it are. Try a few virtualisation platforms. HyperV would be my favourite if you are using W10 Education or Enterprise and you don’t want to spend any more money. Otherwise VMware Workstation. I’ve had bad experiences with VirtualBox so I try to avoid it as much as possible. Also try WSL and dual booting if that doesn’t work for you.

Edited January 17, 2020 by Norphy

[genesis]

Do I need to download and install HyperV same as Virtual Box.

Is HyperV free to download and install, please suggest.

Any help and tutorials would be great, thanks

[genesis]

I have purchased Windows 10 Home Plus Single Language, English.

Will I be able to install HyperV on this Edition of Windows.

[genesis]

I have purchased Windows 10 Home Plus Single Language, English.

Will I be able to install HyperV on this Edition of Windows.

Thanks I found an article to install Ubuntu on HyperV.

But not able to get the sound working.

 

But when Ubuntu installed on virtual box, sound works.

 

Wondering if Iam missing any settings in HyperV for sound to work on Ubuntu?

[mavhc]

Google hyperv audio driver