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Can a Linux installation be run as a VM in Windows?
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Yup. Sure can. It’ll run as good as the system Resources’s you allocate during the install. I run them quite often with virtualbox
VMWare Workstation is now free as well if you can tolerate Broadcom’s dogshit website
That's good to know :)
Is there anything special that I need to do, or do I just boot from the Mint boot drive?
Depending on which virtual machine software you use, you might need to go onto the Linux even after you boot from it and run some programmer script to install drivers or something, but depends on which virtual machine software you use.