Back in the early 2000s I acquired a copy of VMWare Workstation 5, I ran VMs on an HP dv6000 with a Turion CPU and a gig of RAM.
With XP it was fine, I even ran a Windows 2003 server VM with a domain controller on it.
Those days are two decades gone, you will need a minimum of 16GB on a normal computer, and I’d recommend 32GB to give yourself headroom for VMs these days.
It sucks, absolutely, but it is the current reality.
Damn, 1 GB of RAM in cca 2003? That was really a high-end machine. But 4 GB is enough for a Linux computer now with not too many browser tabs or workflows with large files.
I’d start my learning journey with what l have in hand.
Right now, l’ve just installed a WSL. I’ve installed fish and zsh. I would have loved to install MX Linux, but l better stick with Ubuntu for the time being. My next step would be setting up vs code, and starting off my journey with git.
Back in the early 2000s I acquired a copy of VMWare Workstation 5, I ran VMs on an HP dv6000 with a Turion CPU and a gig of RAM.
With XP it was fine, I even ran a Windows 2003 server VM with a domain controller on it.
Those days are two decades gone, you will need a minimum of 16GB on a normal computer, and I’d recommend 32GB to give yourself headroom for VMs these days.
It sucks, absolutely, but it is the current reality.
What do you want to do with the VM?
Damn, 1 GB of RAM in cca 2003? That was really a high-end machine. But 4 GB is enough for a Linux computer now with not too many browser tabs or workflows with large files.
I wish to run both linux as well as android on it.
I would recommend dual booting/switching to linux and running android via linux.
Memory is probably your biggest bottle neck here so setting up a bit of extra swap for Linux will be worthwhile until you can upgrade
That is what you will run on it, yes, what are you looking to do with it?
I’m new to computers actually, so yet to figure out what are the things that they can do. A VM can do.
VMs with desktop Linux or Android are technically possible but you won’t enjoy the performance. Better dual-boot with those specs.
Alright, just a heads up with the specs you posted, you may be rather disappointed with the performance of the VM.
Do you have any budget for computer hardware?
I’d start my learning journey with what l have in hand.
Right now, l’ve just installed a WSL. I’ve installed fish and zsh. I would have loved to install MX Linux, but l better stick with Ubuntu for the time being. My next step would be setting up vs code, and starting off my journey with git.