Windows sucks you should use Linux Windows 11 is garbage don't even try it these are all Rando comments that we tend to get on every video as people try to force you to use whatever it is that they're using well I'm going to show you how you can try any operating system without removing your current Windows to see what works for you and without losing your data okay so this happens in two stages the first stage is to create a virtual machine or a VM as the cool kids say and a virtual machine is basically just software it's creates a separate computer inside your main computer because it acts like a new computer you can run anything that you word on a new computer like installing a new operating system I'm going to show you two popular free VM software the first one is Oracle VM virtual box and the second one is the VM workstation player as long as you're using it for non-commercial usage both of them are completely free I have links to these in the description in the video to make sure you get the right ones now there are some differences between the two but for the purposes of what we're trying to do which is just to try a new operating system they're virtually the same and you know the drill you click on the download button you follow the next next next Little Wizard and just like that you've just passed stage number one you have the VM software ready to go so so with that in mind on to stage number two and that is where we get the installation file of whatever operating system we want to install I'm not only going to show you both VM software but I'm also going to do an installation of Windows 11 and an installation of Linux so you get to see everything so let's start with Windows 11 grab that installation files and this is how you do that all righty let's grab the files so go into Google type Windows 11 download and you should come to the Microsoft website now the first thing you need to do is to run the PC health check to make sure your computer has the minimum requirements if yours doesn't there are ways to get around that let me know if you want to see a video about that scroll down on that particular page until you see the windows 11 ISO image and this option is for users that want to create a bootable installation Media or create a virtual machine it's exactly what we are doing right now so from the drop down select windows 11 click on download then it's going to ask you to select your region in my case I'm choosing English United States click on confirm and there it is download the 64bit it's going to save the ISO file somewhere on your computer make sure you know where that is okay now that you've got that it all comes together let's open up the VM software and let's install it all right let's fire up the VM workstation 17 player that's the one we're going to start with I'll show you the other utility later but right here you can see I've got a whole bunch of other virtual machines that I've already created but let's go and create our new one so what we're going to do is we're going to click on the create new virtual machine and I'm going take you step by step through this so don't panic what we're looking for is the installer so click on the installer the ISO file remember that file we downloaded the windows 11 ISO we want to find it on our computer click on it and it will say hey this is a Windows 11 it automatically detects it that's great click on next then it's going to say let's give it a name what's the virtual machine name this is for your reference so you can refer back to it you can see in the background I have mint I have Windows 10 I've got Kelly Linux as well all right on the next screen it needs to have the encrypted trusted platform modules in order to operate TPM is one of those requirements for Windows 11 and this allows you to do that right here because remember virtual machine is like a brand new hardware within a computer so we have the TPM in a we're going to give it a password and then we're going to click on next right here it's going to say look on your hard drive how much space you want to allocate for this virtual machine now I will say for Windows 11 it recommends around 50 to 60 gigs I don't want to give it that much because I don't have that much free space on this particular machine so I'm just going to make this 20 just so we can show you the installation process of course the more you have that you can do these updates you can install more applications and the next up do you want to store it in a single file or multiple files now multiple files is great if we're moving it from computer to computer but remember we're just going to try this new operating system we're not planning on moving it around so I'm going to store it on one file and then on this screen well we want to click on customize hardware and this is where virtual machines gets really really cool and really really geeky this says Hey I've allocated 4 gigs of RAM of memory to this virtual machine and we know that 4 gigs is never going to be enough for when Windows 11 so we're going to bump it up to 16 now on the right hand side it's going to give you the minimum requirement it's going to give you the recommended remember this is working within the environment that you have so if your machine only has 8 gigs you can't give this 16 gigs otherwise it's not going to work so bump it up to as high as you can while still recognizing that your machine still needs to work whilst this works so 16 8 those should be perfectly fine okay now that we've done that let's click on finished and then we're pretty much ready to rock and roll now we let it run it creates the virtual environment it then boots off that ISO that file that we have giving us the installation files like we're installing this on a new computer and here I'm going to choose a custom installation now look at this this says I have got 20 gigs to play with because that's the 20 gigs that we gave it originally now people normally freak out because they think they're going to erase their entire computer it doesn't it's only can work in the space that you've allocated in the virtual machine and here it just makes a little note saying hey for Windows 11 we kind of need 50 gigs but I'm ignoring that we're just trying to experiment with this operating system to see if we actually like it okay let this thing carry on I'm going to kind of let it do its thing I'm just want to zoom out to show you that this is working in a virtual machine my Windows 10 is underneath that there is my windows 11 installation I'm speeding through it and there we go you now have Windows 11 running inside Windows 10 and it doesn't touch your data it's completely separate in fact let me just zoom in quickly go into my documents here on my windows 11 no pictures no documents no music no videos completely separate from my main machine so there's no harm in playing around and when I'm ready to shut it down click on player click on power click on shutdown guest or you can just go into Windows 11 and do the normal shutdown as you would any computer okay that was pretty awesome now I'm going to show you how to do a Linux installation and yes we can use the VM workstation player to do that but instead I am going to do that on the virtual box so this way you get to see Windows 11 you get to see Linux you get to see both VM platforms let's grab the ISO file for Linux all right let's install Ubuntu so I'm going to do a quick Google search for Ubuntu click on the download button and look at that it's an ISO file which is exactly what we did before let's save it to our computer and let's fire it up but this time we're going to use the VM virtual Box by Oracle and we going to click on new and it's pretty much the same process as we did before we have to give it a name we have to select the ISO file we let's use the iso for Ubuntu this time there's my all my isos I've downloaded let's look for the Ubuntu One let's click on that and it already identifies it as Linux and it's got the version name as Ubuntu right and the hardware is where we change our base memory like we did before we're going to bump this up to 16 which is a nice for Linux to have so much memory and let's go on to the hard drive and here we can choose to allocate how much space you want to give this virtual machine okay smash that finish button and then it will basically start to load and there we go the want to installation is happening right now I'm going to not going to make you watch the entire installation but I'm just going to call out a couple of things here so at a certain point it says hey which apps would you like to start with the default is just a smaller version or the expanded version I'm because we're just playing around with us I'm going to choose the smaller version just so you can see what it bu to looks like and on the next screen it says hey you got some proprietary software when it comes to things like graphics and Hardware like Nvidia Graphics drivers if you've got those install those download install support for additional media format yes I want that cuz I'm again I'm just trying to get experience of what this feels like and this screen erase the disc and install Ubuntu this is again where people panic remember like we did before it will only use whatever space you've allocated in your hard drive it is not going to touch your main computer okay very important of course having backup is critical just in case things go horribly wrong I have yet to see it go horribly wrong so but disclaimer is a okay we spok it enough there it is there is a buntu currently running on my Windows 10 machine completely separated from my data and this is such a cool way to play with Linux something that you may be being afraid of and didn't want to go all in on you can now experiment with it see if it's for you and if it is then make the migration later on uh one more thing before we head out is that if you don't like it and you want to remove it from your hard drive all you're going to do is go into your virtual software right click on it click on remove and then it will actually say do you want to keep the files and just remove it from your list no we want to delete all the files we want to reclaim that 20 gigs that we've allocated to the virtual machine we want to claim it back to our hard drive and there it is it's gone Windows 10 hasn't been touched everything still works as normal VMS are awesome you get to experiment without having to commit until you're ready and without having to worry about dual boot and rebooting and playing into the BIOS and doing all these weird and wonderful stuff it's just there on your desktop ready for you to use at a moment's notice and if you are still on Windows 10 now is the perfect time to see other operating systems because Windows 10 is coming to an end in 2025 what does this mean for you well check out this video right over here but give the video a quick thumbs up before you head out and I'll see you in this video Let's Go