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    Run Linux in a virtual machine

    Feb 28, 2023 4 minutes

    YOU’LL NEED THIS

    VIRTUALBOX AND UBUNTU

    Time required: Two hours.

    of reasons you should want to try out Linux, but in keeping with our first tutorial this month (see page 64), one of them is to make it harder for your activity to be tracked online. If you want to make sure you can’t be tracked, our best advice would be to use a different PC. You can do this even if you don’t have a second computer by setting up a virtual machine on your computer, which behaves as though it’s an entirely separate device. If set up properly, nothing that happens on your virtual machine will impact your main Windows installation, meaning that any websites you visit won’t

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