[trebb]

Been thinking of going LINUX and running Win apps on a VM install of Win - any suggestions - I have some old Unix (mainly Solaris) training but haven't even dabbled for 15 years so the LINUX platform would have to be pretty user friendly.

Thanks

[eastexsteve]

I like Ubuntu Linux myself for a unix-type platform.

[ThunderSleeps]

Linux Mint is one of the more user-friendly and "new to Linux friendly" distros. It is available with several different desktop environments. I would recommend Cinnamon as that should be familiar to a windows user.

Even better, you can download the ISO file and use any number of utilities to install that onto a thumb drive creating a bootable thumb drive. Then if your BIOS is correctly configured (or you hit the right magic key combo on startup) you can boot from the thumb drive and try out Linux without committing to an install. Of course it will be a little slow running from the thumb drive, but you'll get to try it out.