How many of you dual-boot
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My net book only runs trisquelmini.
Other computers in the house run different OS.
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No dual booting here.
eheheh :)))
You think it was a joke xD
In 2000 I noticed that Windows 98 is wasting space in my 8 GB HD. I used GNU/Linux from 2000 to 2006 exclusively. Then I begun to play some games and dual booted at times up to this summer. Usually though it was too much of a hassle to boot to Windows for games, and I used Windows for nothing else than gaming.
I could get legally from my school Everything else from MS but MS Office for free and use them for non commercial purposes forever. I don't take them because I much more prefer superior GNU/Linux system to inferior MS system. MS products just suck too much to even take it for free as in free beer.
How awfull how quicly the time goes lol.
hehe
Yes, I actually though it was a joke. But one made because of this being a repeated thread. I thought it was a jokingly reference to the fact that the person who opened this new thread was just repeating - or creating an alternative to - an already existing thread of the same nature. (That's what occurred to me and that's why I laughed.) :)
As for Windows and GNU/Linux, I only used to dual boot to play a game on Windows also, for the first two years, because I was waiting for the guarantee of my computer to expire, in order to open it and substitute the graphics card for a better GNU/Linux-supported one. After that, I started playing the same game in its GNU/Linux version and "bye bye" Windows...
I couldn't stand it anymore. It's a Horrible OS... Badly designed, slow, insecure, Big Brother-like, and one that abuses its autonomous decision powers.
I'd be kind of surprised if many Trisquel users - being so committedly Free Software - dual booted, since that would pretty much invalidate any stance on the issues. The exception being that so many of us are tied into workplaces and educational institutions that are dependant on nonfree software and so have little choice.
I do still dual boot, though hopefully this will change. I also have the work/uni issues. The University administration are not even remotely interested in discussing free software, they've put it in the 'too hard' basket and won't change. We even have courses totally based around specific software packages.... oops there I'm starting to rant....
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On 18/11/12 16:45, name at domain wrote:
> I'd be kind of surprised if many Trisquel users - being so committedly Free Software - dual booted,
since that would pretty much invalidate any stance on the issues. The
exception being that so many of us are tied into workplaces and
educational institutions that are dependant on nonfree software and so
have little choice.
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Dual booting two libre distros would not invalidate any point for the
defense of freedom.
> I do still dual boot, though hopefully this will change. I also have the work/uni issues. The
University administration are not even remotely interested in discussing
free software, they've put it in the 'too hard' basket and won't change.
We even have courses totally based around specific software packages....
oops there I'm starting to rant....
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How about virtualization for these cases?
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[quote]Dual booting two libre distros would not invalidate any point for the
defense of freedom.[/quote]
Obviously the implication is dual booting with a nonfree distribution!!!
I am a member!
I don't dual-boot this machine, but there is an iMac in the house, which
I use on rare occasions--last was about a month ago, and just to
sneaker-net some files; time before that? I don't know. LOL.
I have many friends who dual-boot or run a GNU/Linux distro in a virtual
space. They're not using Trisquel, and find it odd that I do.
I sympathize with the post-modern housewife's rant regarding course work
being too intimately tied to a certain proprietary bit of software. So
often, I hear people talking of so-called "computer science" coursses,
only to find out that much of the class's time is spent learning how to
use some IDE, or other, instead of fundamentals. This is probably more
likely to happen in settings geard to making people more-immediately
employable. I'm sure this happens with tools like Excel and business,
accounting, or stats courses, too.
Best Regards,
Dave H.
My home PC is in dual-booting - Trisquel and Windows 8.
I can't do many things in Trisquel which I can do in Windows 8. Even my part-time job requires use of special addon to MSO, any free alternatives are just not so compartible and/or efficient.
Nevertheless, deep in my heart I like the idea of free software and will continue to support it.
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