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To: dayglored

Insider Program? Me?

LOL. Last time I volunteered for anything like that was in ‘65....fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice....

The only reason I’ve got a W10 computer in the house is that Grandma has to use it with Outlook/Office 365 in her business.

I’m just looking for a date certain for a UNIX with W10-in-VM installation for that pretty laptop.


25 posted on 05/02/2017 6:17:10 AM PDT by Unrepentant VN Vet (...against all enemies, foreign or domestic...)
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To: Unrepentant VN Vet
> ...UNIX with W10-in-VM installation...

These days I encourage people to only run Windows in VMs, under Linux or MacOS, or even under a vanilla Windows direct install that does nothing but run the VM host software. VirtualBox, VMware, Xen... there are lots of ways to isolate oneself from the hassles of fixing Windows-on-the-metal problems.

That said, I do have Win7 Ult. installed directly on my c. 2010 Fujitsu Lifebook. I use Acronis to take a monthly full-disk image of it, and back up the recent data files every week or so. But it's only for portability, travel, etc., it's not my main machine; that's a VM on my desktop.

Windows runs quite well in a VM. You'll enjoy it -- but you already know that. :-)

26 posted on 05/02/2017 6:25:03 AM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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