On 12/17/2017 1:28 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> On Sunday, December 17, 2017 at 9:34:25 AM UTC-10, Casa del Sol naciente wrote:
>>
>> Well I gotta tell you, the GUI enhancements and command line banishment
>> of the new desktops are darned impressive.
>>
>> Ubunto, Mint, there's some good stuff out there now.
>
> That might be the solution for people with old computers that want to move away from Windows. I might try Linux yet again if a spare clunker of a desktop machine comes my way. OTOH, if I wanted a desktop system, I'd probably just dump the old hardware and get a Chromebox.
>


Remember you can run various OS's on partitions using:

https://www.virtualbox.org/

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product
for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely
feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is
also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open
Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL)
version 2. See "About VirtualBox" for an introduction.

Presently, VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and Solaris
hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including
but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista,
Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4, 2.6, 3.x
and 4.x), Solaris and OpenSolaris, OS/2, and OpenBSD.