On 11/12/2013 08:32 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: > But, having said that, when one really uses two operating systems on > the same machine, I expect it's more common to run one under > virtualization, so you can run both at the same time - dual booting is > a real pain if one is really USING both operating systems. > > What are other people's experiences? How many folks here use Windows > (or Mac o/s) on the same machine as a linux distribution? Do you > dual-boot or do you virtualize? I dual-boot my current desktop, my previous desktop and my current & previous laptops. For work, I needed windows for our Outlook, & Office packages, but used Linux for my personal accounts.
for my desktops, they always came with Windows installed, was XP and my current desktop has Windows 7 and Linux Mint 15. I rarely now use Windows 7. I went back to Windows for my current desktop 2 years ago & tried Windows 7.. Back in July I finally got frustrated enough with the 10 minute boot times, that I installed linux. I was using Adobe Photoshop Elements, that was the MAIN reason I had not switched before that, and 3 or 4 times a year I used Hallmark Card Studio. I used Thunderbird for email so that was easy to backup & move to linux. I boot windows now once every 2 or 4 weeks just to update the patches. If I get near running out of space for linux I'll just throw in a second HD, like I did last time. I have an android phone & tablet that is easy to sync to linux ( except when logged in using trinity DM) and I use ImageMagix & GIMP for my photo manipulation. I ran linux as my primary desktop since about 1990, but I work in the windows environment... Right now my work laptop is running Windows 7( corporate, I can't change it), sitting right next to my Linux desktop that I am typing on. -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/528231be.2040...@gmail.com