Thanks for the suggestions - he's going to set up a dual boot on the
machine and use assistive tech under windows when writing up his thesis,
but as he's also going to experiment with linux-based tools I think I'll
just ask him to send me details on what he found worked for at the end
of his masters, for future reference :)
Ian
On 06/06/2014 12:53, Natalya Dell wrote:
>> Would suggest dual booting machine instead, and stumping up a copy of
>> Windows in your reccs. Then you can also recommend Windows word
>> prediction.
>>
>> Sounds like the student knows what he is doing, so no need to Windows
>> installed for him - just delivery should suffice.
>
> The student could always run the Debian in a Windows VM for his specialist
> software although I'm not enough of a VM/*nix user to know which VM would
> be best and if there is a cost for that. This would be alongside dual
> booting as there are times using VMs just doesn't work well.
>
> Natalya
>
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