On 12/7/2016 10:51 AM, Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster <[email protected]> wrote: > If you find Virualbox works well for you, then fine. Others may have > good reasons to not use it.
The only good reasons I can think of not to use it would be an extremely underpowered/resourced system, or you're an extreme gamer... > Same with people using the various Linux distros and different > desktop environments. Virtualbox runs under linux, and I'd be surprised if the vast majority of linux users' distro didn't have it available in their standard package repo. > I do not run a Virtualbox type of system on any system since the early > 2000's. I do not want to have any speed reductions for my systems. Hasn't been a problem in a long time - unless, like I said, you're an extreme gamer or something like that. > With Windows, I have put so much security software on my Windows systems > and Windows partitions on the dual boot systems. That take a lot of > processor power to keep my Windows systems free of any "nasties" that > are out there to infect and/or destroy my systems. Good quality security software should not have a significant impact on system performance - if it does, you're using the wrong software. > I am the guy people come to when they do not keep their systems safe > from infections and need to have them cleaned up so they can us them > again. Many times I need to remove their drive[s] and run them on my > systems as an external drives, since their systems are too infected to > reinstall and run the cleaning security packages. Why go to all that trouble? Just use a bootable CD or USB stick (like I've been using for years). -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
