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 <fri...@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. > > -- > --- Friczy --- > 'Death is not a bug, it's a feature' > > > -- > 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/52828a3f.30...@freemail.hu > > -- Shane D. Johnson IT Administrator Rasmussen Equipment
