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Re: who uses dual boot? [was: How to start using a free OS]

I have to dual boot my laptop and home computer.  As I prefer to run Debian as my desktop, there are some things that just  aren't worth he hassle of running in a VM since I already have the Windows 7 running.  I originally loaded my home system with Windows cause I was gaming at the time and now that I am not and am in school, for the few things I need to run in IE it just isn't worth the hassle and down time to get running in Wine or a VM.  Work laptop is kind of the same scenario except the applications are IE based.  I do have to admit as well, it is a little bit of laziness on my part for not wanting to have to deal with wifi on the laptop. 


On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 1:06 PM, Nemeth Gyorgy <friczy@freemail.hu> wrote:
2013-11-12 14:32 keltezéssel, Miles Fidelman írta:
> That's a very interesting point, but I wonder if it's true.  There are
> real-world reasons to run both windows on linux on the same machine
> (personal example: running Linux on my laptop for development and
> demonstrations; running Windows for office applications).
>
> 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.

There can be a lot of reasons to use natively two operating systems on
the same computer. One can have hardware which is handled only by
Windows for example. Virtualization is a solution sometimes but there
are always overheads and drawbacks. Sometimes it is not a real problem,
in other cases it is.

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