First, I searched about the pros and cons of dual-boot and virtual machine method of using more than one operating system on the same machine. I chose to use a virtual machine( VMWare Workstation 15 player) because my Laptop has enough RAM to run a guest OS via virtualisation on a host OS. Secondly, dual boot procedure is more complex and I cannot use both OS at the same time which is possible using the virtual machine method.
Second, I installed VMWare Workstation 15 player which is a free version of VMWare for academic and non-commercial use.
Then I downloaded .iso file of Ubuntu 19.04
Opened VMware player and clicked on the Create a Virtual Machine and chose the .iso file of Ubuntu when prompted
VMware has a feature called Easy Install to quickly install the operating system if it recognizes the OS to be installed and since it recognizes Ubuntu there is not much to do i.e VMware will take care of the configurations.
VMware Player will try to choose the best settings on its own, so I left the default settings unchanged except the Disk space which by default was set to 20 GB and I changed it to 22GB.
Memory size allocated to the virtual machine is 2GB by default by VMware and I chose to keep it unchanged as 2 GB should be enough for Ubuntu leaving 6 GB for host OS(Windows)
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I eventually ditched windows after a few months. Definitely bump up the VM RAM up to 4GB, 2GB might be a little too light, but it also depends on the host RAM usage, don't want to choke your host- it'd be a little rude. I love a little Ubuntu in my life, but do what works best for you