I agree with Daniel Quintiliani upthread.
In addition,
There are many computers with UEFI and some machines with Windows, that
won't allow installation or running of alternative (aka non-Windows)
operating systems.
Some machines are tablet computers, where changing the default OS is more
Tails is pretty easy to use; https://tails.boum.org/
> On Dec 12, 2016, at 2:15 PM, Daniel Quintiliani wrote:
>
> Seems like a lot of work and reading material for a Windows user who just
> wants to browse the web and not have to worry about corporate and government
>
Seems like a lot of work and reading material for a Windows user who just wants
to browse the web and not have to worry about corporate and government spooks.
Plus there's the risk M$ is tampering with the virtual machine client, remember
you still have UEFI too so it's possible.
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-Dan Q
In this needings situation I'd prefer one of following options:
1) Use directly the computer with GNU/Linux when needing to browse web
2) Use remotely (eg. vnc) the computer with GNU/Linux to browse web
3) Run a GNU/Linux virtual machine in Windows host to browse web
Running FOSS in Windows, you