[sf-lug] dual-boot

[Akkana Peck]

Rick Moen writes:
> In my experience, dual-boot is almost always a tactical error, 
> most often chosen mainly because the user didn't consider alternatives.

Mostly I agree with that, and I don't have dual-boot on any of my
current machines (for the last two laptops, I was lucky enough to
find laptops that came with Ubuntu instead of Windows, but that
isn't always an option).

But before that, I usually did keep a dual-boot of the OEM Windows,
in case I should have a need for a program or driver that wasn't
available on Linux. I spent many hours trying to find a way to put
that OEM Windows inside a VM somehow, and never found one. And I
wasn't willing to hand Microsoft a bunch of money for a second,
non-OEM Windows license just so I could put it in a VM for something
I might use a couple of times a year, when I'd already paid them
once for Windows on the same machine. Call me cheap (and you'd be
right) but it also bothers me in principle. So that's one use case
for dual-boot.

        ...Akkana