longnosemonkey:
Really?
Win7 is pretty recent. Do you really NEED Win8? Win7 can be run as a virtual machine on Linux, and if this is done on a multi-core machine with a fair bit of memory, Windows will run at near native speed (some even claim faster than native). WINE is another option if the Windows apps you need for work are supported by it.
As I suggested earlier, you can also just run Linux on another machine. Hardware is cheap these days, and even a used machine a couple of years old will give excellent performance. Files can be kept in sync between the two machines in the cloud, or over a LAN with xcopy or rsync (rsync is available for Windows too). I've been doing that for years, though my days of needing to maintain a Windows box are long gone.
Dual boot works on pre Win8 machines, but I find the annoyances beyond what I am willing to put up with.
Frank.
I need Windows 8 for games and work. So I need to dual-boot.
Win7 is pretty recent. Do you really NEED Win8? Win7 can be run as a virtual machine on Linux, and if this is done on a multi-core machine with a fair bit of memory, Windows will run at near native speed (some even claim faster than native). WINE is another option if the Windows apps you need for work are supported by it.
As I suggested earlier, you can also just run Linux on another machine. Hardware is cheap these days, and even a used machine a couple of years old will give excellent performance. Files can be kept in sync between the two machines in the cloud, or over a LAN with xcopy or rsync (rsync is available for Windows too). I've been doing that for years, though my days of needing to maintain a Windows box are long gone.
Dual boot works on pre Win8 machines, but I find the annoyances beyond what I am willing to put up with.
Frank.
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