On the same note...
What has worked well for me is to partition the harddrive into 3
partitions. On one small partition have windows installed, on another
small partition have linux installed and leave the third, largest
partition for saving all of your files. You then have a dual boot
system, which can read all of your files no matter what operating system
you are in.
This may not be as convenient as a virtual LINUX install for switching
back and forth between operating systems, but might give you better
performance.
In the past I have tried running linux programs through Cygwin and
windows programs through wine, but in the end I found that the amount of
painful bugs that I needed to figure out just was not worth it.
David
On 10/01/2013 4:16 AM, Brian Smith wrote:
> Just wondered if you'd thought of running a virtual LINUX installation
> under VirtualBox on your Windows machine?
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