On Sunday, December 17, 2017 at 10:31:05 AM UTC-10, Casa del Sol naciente wrote:
> 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.
> >
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>
> 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.

I have used Linux on a dual boot system about 10 years ago. I didn't like it much.