On 12/13/17 08:18, Rick Stevens wrote: > 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". :-) I don't use Windows at all. But I have question anyway. I thought that Windows would complain, and maybe refuse to run, if you used an external drive and the hardware it is running on has changed. -- Fedora Users List - The place to go to speculate endlessly
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