Dual-boot is a complete pain in the tail. Even when it works, it's maddening -- you always find yourself having to reboot to do that one little thing that's absolutely vital.
The alternative is to use a virtual machine. To your computer, it's just another program, but it thinks it's a complete computer.
VMWare has a free program to create and run virtual machines called VMWare Player. See https://www.vmware.com/products/player/overview.html. Load it up and, effectively, you have a whole new computer. Warning -- virtual machines eat disk space. I'd say a current Linux distro would need a minimum of 20GB and 40GB would be better.
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Date: 2012-10-13 03:00 pm (UTC)The alternative is to use a virtual machine. To your computer, it's just another program, but it thinks it's a complete computer.
VMWare has a free program to create and run virtual machines called VMWare Player. See https://www.vmware.com/products/player/overview.html. Load it up and, effectively, you have a whole new computer. Warning -- virtual machines eat disk space. I'd say a current Linux distro would need a minimum of 20GB and 40GB would be better.