Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jan Coombs Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: OT: Linux Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 10:13:31 +0000 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 28 Message-ID: <20161206101331.20daaf48@HP-6550b> References: <028afe34-e0cf-4c8f-8a0b-60f495d9b9ca@googlegroups.com> <6f69aa6e-b86e-4722-8d5f-b39c2d665d66@googlegroups.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="c796128037d30705bdf5965bba7c0a6b"; logging-data="10204"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+N/PGX8YQcuqLoQTkst/3dN0EmT19eExM=" X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 3.13.2 (GTK+ 2.24.30; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7sM0djT8z9MZsFmpPKO0JX4V6Fw= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.forth:53114 On Mon, 5 Dec 2016 23:38:20 -0800 (PST) Mark Wills wrote: > Why not install Linux as your native OS and install Windows as > a VM? Oracle's VirtualBox hosts windows perfectly and is free. > Worth a try. You could also try this on one machine to see if you can back out of your Windows 10 hook-in. (For new copies of Win10 the licence key is recoverable from the BIOS) Every useful machine at my home and two at work have Windows re-installed in a virtual box. This dates from my first dual core laptop, and includes XP, Win7, and Win10. (I once tested Win3.1, 95 and 98, but had forgotten how to use 3.1:) I'm not sure if this is important, but most copies of VirtualBox i'm using have been installed and are updated from the Oracle repo rather than ubuntu. USB connections can be assigned to the virtualised machine, or connected for one-off use with a few key strokes. Some programming dongles need permaneny USB assignments because they disconnect part way through the flashing process. Hope this helps, happy exploring, Jan Coombs --