[conspire] (forw) [sf-lug] Dual boot (was: pair of own suggestion)

[Don Marti]

On 10/12/21 16:50, Rick Moen wrote:

> This is true.   _But_ reasonably modern computers have ample RAM
> (the usual limiting factor) to also run a hypervisor layer and a
> Linux distro _provided_ one eschews bloatware (***COUGH*** GNOME3,
> KDE Plasma, Unity, Cinnamon ***COUGH***).

And there are new options available. Recent releases of Microsoft 
Windows have the somewhat confusingly-named "Windows Subsystem for 
Linux" which gives users of those Windows systems access to a fairly 
complete Linux install that has your existing files available.

If someone just wants to run programming tools that are available for 
Linux, or try out Linux, that might be the way to go. They can always 
check their programming project into version control and check it out on 
a bare metal Linux system later.

(the main dual-boot advantage I can think of is if someone dual-boots 
their gaming/development system, to break the habit of starting a 
time-sucking gaming session by "playing 1 quick game while `make && make 
test` is running"...but that's about deliberately making things less 
convenient)