Linux Virtual Machine for Development

Step by step walk through setting up a VirtualBox virtual machine running Ubuntu MATE Linux for our development environment. This is followed by installing Visual Studio Code and creating a Hello World C++ application to verify the setup.

00:00 Introduction
01:15 What is a Virtual Machine?
02:00 Why Linux?
02:44 Prerequisites
04:27 Create Virtual Machine
07:21 Install Ubuntu MATE 21.10
13:47 Install Visual Studio Code
15:31 Test C++ program
17:34 Compile first attempt
17:50 Install build-essential
18:24 Compile successful
18:54 Recap
19:14 Other options

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VirtualBox:
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Visual Studio Code:
VMWare Workstation Player:
Raspberry Pi:
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