On 27/06/16 21:30, David Lowe wrote: > > Really? Surely the best way is to shrink the windows partition by at > least 20 gigs and then install Mint side by side. The installer works > out how to leave Windows alone and the boot manager handles the rest. > It's so idiot proof I have done it several times and never broken > anything. I can mount windows folders for data sharing. All this talk > about virtualization is very cool but seems way over the top. > > Am I missing something?
Nope, you're not missing anything. Dual-booting is a good solution, and lots of people get it working from the many how-tos etc around the web. However it has the potential to go a bit pear shaped and I for one would never advise it as a path to go down when someone has asked for "idiot proof" just in case I wound having to help the person fix the mess when they loose the wife's knitting pattern collection she had on her desktop! :-) Installing Virtual box is painless, and very unlikely to break things, Criggies suggestion of an entirely separate machine of course is better. And as for having a hypervisor on the network. That's just 'cause we're geeks. :-) :-) Cheers, Chris H. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
