On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 6:34 PM, David Rock <da...@graniteweb.com> wrote: > >> On Jun 28, 2016, at 18:16, boB Stepp <robertvst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 10:48 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> >> wrote: >>> >>> >>> What about running Win7 in a virtual machine? >> >> What type of performance hit will I take when running CPU intensive >> processes? I don't yet have any real experiences with running virtual >> machines. > > Ultimately, not likely to be all that much. The bigger constraint with > running VMs is often available ram.
Based on everyone's input (Which all was quite helpful!) I'm going to stick with the original idea of creating a dual-boot environment. Windows 7 is already installed and up-to-date along with my other Windows-based software that isn't directly Linux-compatible. Plus, I don't play games often, but it will be nice to have W7 available for that. And I will not get *any* unnecessary performance hits on any of the existing software. > If you value Alan’s opinion (and arguably, your wife’s is more important), > try out Mint. You may or may not like it, but you won’t know until you try. > I still say a dry run in a VM to get a feel for it would do wonders for you > regardless. Mint will receive my initial attention. I prepared a USB flash drive last night with the Cinnamon Mint 17.3 iso with the intent of trying out Mint running from the USB thumb drive, but when I got to the rebooting stage to change my boot priority I got my first surprise: My Christmas present of a Corsair mechanical gaming keyboard was not _seen_ during the boot up sequence until *after* Windows started up. So I could not get into my BIOS area! I had not noticed this earlier as I have had no need to tweak my BIOS settings since acquiring this keyboard. This inspired some online research where I also found that this keyboard is not Linux compatible, though some clever people have created some work-arounds. So I have ordered today a new mechanical keyboard that *is* Linux (or anything else) compatible out of the box with no software installation required plus a new hard drive (Apparently Hitachi may be making the most reliable hard drives these days.). My intent is to keep Windows 7 where it is and install Mint (If I still like it after playing around with it off the USB drive.) to the new hard drive. I now wonder if my Logitech M570 wireless trackball mouse will work with Linux? Again, some online work says that Logitech does not support Linux for this product, but others who have done a dual-boot setup with Windows installed before Linux seem to have found that once the mouse is connected with Windows, it will be seen by Linux. This remains to be seen! If it doesn't, I guess I will have to get a new mouse, too!! Hopefully I will be playing around with Mint tomorrow some time. -- boB _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
