Re: Windows 10 is creeping into your system, it is time to make a decision!

[Kari Eveli lexitec@xxxxxxxx]

Jordan,

Sure. Virtualbox is a good choice for running a Windows subsystem on
Linux. I have not installed a workstation Linux edition for a while, but
I do run a Ubuntu server edition to maintain my net services on a VPS.
Nowadays, it is a lot cheaper than web hotel hosting and gives one more
freedom of configuring web services.


Anyway, I would suggest running a Linux main operating system to do most
of the computing (browser, word-processing, there are even good
commercial alternatives now, e.g. check the new Softmaker Office for
Linux, http://www.softmaker.com/en/). W2K is my choice for Windows under
Linux. If you need more, you are better off running Windows 7 or later
as the main operating system.


Best regards,

Kari Eveli
LEXITEC Book Publishing (Finland)
lexitec@xxxxxxxx

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13.12.2015, 23:21, J R FOX wrote:
> Anyway Kari, here's a notion for you. There has to be a (64-bit)
> VMWare or Virtualbox edition for Linux, right ? Provided you had the
> level of hardware and RAM that could compensate for the inevitable
> overhead, what about running a Win-7 guest OS under Linux ? This
> would obviate the UI design folly of 8.1, and the MS spymaster
> predations of 10. This could be a solution, so long as I don't lose
> the use of any critical apps that I can now run under Win-7. And in
> the meantime, if something like Zorin pans out, I could be getting
> more acclimated to that as another option. It's kind of like the way
> I have three browsers: sometime something does not display or print
> properly in one, but it will in another. Always good to have
> additional options.
>
>
>
>   Jordan