25-08-2024, 10:13 AM
I use Linux Mint with Mate desktop (I have others installed).
From 1998 was dual booting NT 4.0 and Redhat. Later XP and Ubuntu.
Switched completely in Dec 2016.
I have a Win10 laptop I don't use. A free MS tool let me clone my XP laptop (from May/June 2002) and Win7 tower as VM files for VBox. I have XP, Win7 and Win10 VMs on Workstation and synced to linux Laptop with rsync. Really I only use the XP for a short period for the Weather station, which has its own LCD panel / console in the Kitchen anyway.
If I was running Sage Accounts or Payroll or such I might run them on a VM, Win7 in preference to Win10, if possible. Fortunately it's nearly 20 years since I had to support such software.
From 1998 was dual booting NT 4.0 and Redhat. Later XP and Ubuntu.
Switched completely in Dec 2016.
I have a Win10 laptop I don't use. A free MS tool let me clone my XP laptop (from May/June 2002) and Win7 tower as VM files for VBox. I have XP, Win7 and Win10 VMs on Workstation and synced to linux Laptop with rsync. Really I only use the XP for a short period for the Weather station, which has its own LCD panel / console in the Kitchen anyway.
If I was running Sage Accounts or Payroll or such I might run them on a VM, Win7 in preference to Win10, if possible. Fortunately it's nearly 20 years since I had to support such software.
