AZ Nomad <aznomad.3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> On Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:33:56 -0600, Terry Porter <linux-2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>Hi All,
>
>>Roy Schestowitz recently wrote the following on COLA :-
>
>>"A lot of people keep dual-booting for many years until a generation of
>>software 'fades' and the user conveniently goes GNU/Linux-only. I fall
>>under this category as well."
>
>>What Roy says was certainly very true in my case.
>
>>I had installed Linux on my pc around 1995 - 1996 on a separate hard
>>drive to my Windows 95 install, and I used to just turn off the PC and
>>swap the IDE cable from one hard disk to the other, to switch between
>>OSes.
>
> I discovered back in the late 90's that dual booting invites microsoft OSs
> to corrupt foreign partitions. My OS/2 install became far more stable when
> I quit running windows 95.
That is a complete fabrication. Do you have any proof? My company used
dual boot for years and that never ever happened.
>
> Nowadays, if I must run a windows app, I do it in a vmware session. I don't let
> it save any work so that when it corrupts it self, I can simply revert to a
> snapshot. All my work is saved on the linux side via samba.
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