On 12/12/2017 03:23 PM, Greg Woods wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 12, 2017 at 4:19 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan > <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > There's almost no reason to run Windows on bare metal > > > There is if you use Windows to play 3-D games. In my experience, Windows has never played nicely with any other OS on the disk. M$ thinks they own the world and they used either unceremoniously evict any bootloader that wasn't theirs from the disk or bitch loudly that the drive was used and refuse to install at all. For those who had to have M$ on their system, my advice was to install Windows first, reserving enough space on the disk for Linux to live in. Second, install Linux into that reserved location. Linux would set up grub to load Linux or chain-load Windows and Bob's your uncle. If you must run Windows on bare metal rather than a VM, I'd use a second disk, install Windows on it and have your BIOS boot that second drive when you want to bring up Windows. A second drive may not work so well on a laptop, but you could use a USB3 external drive for the times you need Windows. This also allows you to cart your Windows environment around with you as you move from machine to machine (and you'd only need one license). I use a VM for Windows but I use it very rarely-- usually only if someone holds a large gun to my head or threatens my dog. Well, that only happened once and the person threatening my dog was, uhm, "disapeared". :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 22643734 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Okay, who put a "stop payment" on my reality check? - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
