If you are new with Hyper-v, and don’t know the installation of Hyper-v. Open Hyper-v on your Windows 10 and create a new virtual machine for Linux Mint. I have downloaded the Cinnamon 64 bit edition with multimedia supported.ġ. First of all you need to download Linux Mint from it’s official website. Now trying to install Linux Mint on Hyper-V. So you have undrestand the Linux Mint usage and popularity. Thanks to a conservative approach to software updates, a unique Update Manager and the robustness of its Linux architecture, Linux Mint requires very little maintenance (no regressions, no antivirus, no anti-spyware…etc).Ĭreate Linux Mint Virtual Machine on Hyper-v

Based on Debian and Ubuntu, it provides about 30,000 packages and one of the best software managers.

Users are encouraged to send feedback to the project so that their ideas can be used to improve Linux Mint.

It’s both free of cost and open source.

It works out of the box, with full multimedia support and is extremely easy to use.

Some of the reasons for the success of Linux Mint are:

The Linux Mint is the most popular desktop Linux distribution and the 3rd most widely used home operating system behind Microsoft Windows and Apple Mac OS. The purpose of Linux Mint is to produce a modern, elegant and comfortable operating system which is both powerful and easy to use.

The more you needs are RAM and qualified SSD on your laptop or desktop to keep your computer works quicker and faster. But your own host machine must meet the requirements of virtualization technology and hardware. It’s exiting to have your favorite OS on your Windows 10 machine or to install Linux Mint on Hyper-v. The Linux Mint installation on Hyper-v is easy as installing Ubuntu Linux on Hyper-v.

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