For those times when you absolutely must still run Windows XP, one safer way of doing it is to run XP in a virtual machine using the Oracle VirtualBox hypervisor on Linux Mint.

If you’re fed up with Windows but don’t want to give up your PC games, don’t worry. These days, Linux gaming is a lot easier than it used to be thanks to Steam, Proton, and Wine.

A virtual machine eats real resources, which means you'll need to allocate memory and storage space to each virtual instance while leaving enough over for your native operating system.

I'm looking to run a Windows 7 or Windows 10 guest on a linux host so I can access some windows only office, inventory, and database tools. The Linux machine is a Dell E5430 Latitude configured ...

This solution provides the ability to create a virtual machine with custom settings to install and run Linux alongside Windows 11.