On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 02:58:48PM -0500, Máirín Duffy wrote: > Hi Chuck, > > On 12/7/20 2:55 PM, Chuck Anderson wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 02:18:43PM -0500, Máirín Duffy wrote: > >> On 12/7/20 1:47 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > >> Like, if you step back and view "dual-boot" as a solution, what problem > >> could it possibly be solving? Some ideas: > > 4. I just bought a laptop. It came with Windows. I don't want to run > > Windows ever because it is not Free Software, unless I have no > > choice to perform a specific task such as updating firmware or > > configuring some new piece of hardware I just bought (e.g. Gaming > > Mouse), or to run some diagnostics software to prove that there is > > a hardware problem that requires warranty service. > > _______________________________________________ > If you were to wipe windows and install it on a VM running in Linux, > could you not use Windows for the same tasks? > > (I've used my Win10 VM to do HW firmware updates and to operate a Cricut > machine, and am just not aware of other tasks like these that require > bare metal?) I wasn't aware you could do BIOS or firmware updates from a VM. With USB passthru, I guess there is some hardware that can be operated or configured from a VM. However, it is much harder to "swap" the pre-installed copy of Windows to become a VM than it is to configure dual-boot. Also, a VM cannot be used to diagnose hardware problems. > If the problem is that your Windows license didn't include a copy of the > Windows installer, that's a different problem entirely, isn't it? I suppose, but that is not in my control. Well, strictly speaking I could go out of my way to buy a laptop without Windows pre-installed, then purchase a separate retail copy of Windows, but that has a higher barrier to entry. _______________________________________________ desktop mailing list -- desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to desktop-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
