
When you are done, you can delete it, install other operating systems, etc. Meaning, you could create a “virtual machine” on your main computer, and try out Ubuntu on that virtual machine, or VM.

That is, a piece of software that can host a virtual computer, inside of your actual computer. In modern day, pretty much any computer can host a hypervisor. What should you do?Įnter “virtualization”. But you don’t have an extra computer laying around to try it, and you certainly don’t want to replace your main computer with this experimental idea. Suppose you want to play around with Linux and maybe you’ve heard people talking about Ubuntu.

If you attempt this on an M1 device, you’ll get an error during installation that only amd64 processors are supported.

PLEASE NOTE: This only applies to older, non-M1 Apple hardware.
