Short Answer: There is a simple solution to your problem. Just install the virtual-machine with Linux (Ubuntu) - it is free.

I am also a mainly .NET developer who loves to experiment different things, or try variety of frameworks and/or development tools. The main thing here is not to mess your main development environment. Thus, installing everything in a Virtual machine (the native OS, frameworks, configuring and setting them up, etc.) for the type of development you intended to do is the most logical and optimal way to go.

Edit: You may consider different virtualization solution to build your VM. My personal preference go with VirtualBox. It is a free x86 virtualization solution allowing a wide range of x86 operating systems such as Windows, DOS, BSD or Linux to run on a Linux system.

Short Answer: There is a simple solution to your problem. Just install the virtual-machine with Linux (Ubuntu) - it is free.

I am also a mainly .NET developer who loves to experiment different things, or try variety of frameworks and/or development tools. The main thing here is not to mess your main development environment. Thus, installing everything in a Virtual machine (the native OS, frameworks, configuring and setting them up, etc.) for the type of development you intended to do is the most logical and optimal way to go.

Edit: You may consider different virtualization solution to build your Virtual Machine. My personal preference go with VirtualBox. It is a free x86 virtualization solution allowing a wide range of x86 operating systems such as Windows, DOS, BSD or Linux to run on a Linux system.

Short Answer: There is a simple solution to your problem. Just install the virtual-machine with Linux (Ubuntu) - it is free.

I am also a mainly .NET developer who loves to experiment different things, or try variety of frameworks and/or development tools. The main thing here is not to mess your main development environment. Thus, installing everything in a Virtual machine (the native OS, frameworks, configuring and setting them up, etc.) for the type of development you intended to do is the most logical and optimal way to go.

Short Answer: There is a simple solution to your problem. Just install the virtual-machine with Linux (Ubuntu) - it is free.

I am also a mainly .NET developer who loves to experiment different things, or try variety of frameworks and/or development tools. The main thing here is not to mess your main development environment. Thus, installing everything in a Virtual machine (the native OS, frameworks, configuring and setting them up, etc.) for the type of development you intended to do is the most logical and optimal way to go.

Edit: You may consider different virtualization solution to build your VM. My personal preference go with VirtualBox. It is a free x86 virtualization solution allowing a wide range of x86 operating systems such as Windows, DOS, BSD or Linux to run on a Linux system.