Technofyed

If you are just curious about 'Linux', or you need to unleash your inner geek... here is a simple
6 step tutorial to setup a bootable VM for Linux

That article mentions using VMWare player to run the virtual PC however the player, although free, will not let you create a virtual machine but it will only allow you to use a virtual machine. You must get the VMWare workstation trial to create a virtual machine or go with something else.

Tried Linix, What can I say.....didn't like it. Tried Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora and found it to be unstable and unecessarly complicated.

I have never used Linux very much. I have a really old version of Xubuntu installed on my old desktop, but I've never used it much. I think I might install a new version of Ubuntu over the old version, and set that computer up a programming workstation.

Tried Ubuntu 11.04 and really hated it but give it a try, you never know.

That's what I figured. My friend (username "xsskt" on here) uses Ubuntu and really likes it.

Well some people do, I've been using Windows my whole life so I guess i'm just used to the layout and functions. Linux can be very good when you know how to use it and let's not forget it's free lol

I've used and tried many Linux distributions so far and Linux is great.
Anyway, you also have VirtualBox besides VMWare and for a more serious (corporate) approach you also have Xen Hypervisor, both of them free.

My install of Ubuntu on VirtualBox didn't really satisfy me. That could have been because I only allowed 512MB RAM to the VM, but I think it's just the operating system itself that bothers me.

512 MB is more than enough for a Linux Distro, so it wasn't probably that. I haven't used VirtualBox lately, but I believe it should be pretty good. Some time ago there were quite some bugs but I think it should be much better now. Should give it a try someday.

Ubuntu is one of the most user-friendly distros for people who are used to Windows, so I recommend it with GNOME Desktop. Other good distros for the same purpose (in my opinion) are Fedora with GNOME Desktop and OpenSuSE with KDE Desktop. Just my preference.
By the way, if you guys want to take a step further in how Linux works and its structure, I recommend Linux From Scratch.

But my friend told me that 8.1 is more better than 11.04 so now tell me which is much better.