The most secure way to try another operating system is to run it inside some virtual machine – like VirtualBox for example – but as you get used to new os – its best to run it natively …
I disagree. Windows is too fragile to go out on its own. Microsoft is too full of itself to be trusted to respect anything on a computer that it doesn’t understand, so can I, or anyone else, for that matter, trust Windows to not mess up a BSD formatted disk or partition? Or to not try its darnedest to run whatever it possibly can and get a virus / Trojan? No. Not even a little.
This may be a bit orthogonal to the article, but put Windows in a VM and leave it there. It needs a proper, mature OS to watch over it, because it’s a mess waiting to spread.
On the other hand, this article is a good resource for those who wish to know the steps to do this, even though they’ll likely change in six months.
There can be reasons to run Windows, if you develop games for example, or if your company requires the use of Teams/Outlook (Teams has no functioning Linux version afaik these days, and only works in Chromium- outlook is somehow worse here).
Sometimes, there’s no choice, and I’d agree with /u/johnklos except Windows performs so terribly in virtual machines that sometimes you have no choice but to run it natively.
On a related note I just nuked my dual boot windows+openbsd to go full openbsd.
Fresh start. Feels good.
Dualbooting will always feel “dirty” to me. Always gives me this weird anxiety that I’m going to break either OS (I’ve never broken any in my past dualbooting).
FreeBSD also runs well in Hyper-V. I think you can set Hyper-V to use a real partition as a virtual disk, which might allow using the same filesystem as a Hyper-V VM or a bootable OS.
I disagree. Windows is too fragile to go out on its own. Microsoft is too full of itself to be trusted to respect anything on a computer that it doesn’t understand, so can I, or anyone else, for that matter, trust Windows to not mess up a BSD formatted disk or partition? Or to not try its darnedest to run whatever it possibly can and get a virus / Trojan? No. Not even a little.
This may be a bit orthogonal to the article, but put Windows in a VM and leave it there. It needs a proper, mature OS to watch over it, because it’s a mess waiting to spread.
On the other hand, this article is a good resource for those who wish to know the steps to do this, even though they’ll likely change in six months.
Its generally to start with FreeBSD - after you are comfortable with FreeBSD - there is no need at all for Windows :)
There can be reasons to run Windows, if you develop games for example, or if your company requires the use of Teams/Outlook (Teams has no functioning Linux version afaik these days, and only works in Chromium- outlook is somehow worse here).
Sometimes, there’s no choice, and I’d agree with /u/johnklos except Windows performs so terribly in virtual machines that sometimes you have no choice but to run it natively.
On a related note I just nuked my dual boot windows+openbsd to go full openbsd.
Fresh start. Feels good.
Dualbooting will always feel “dirty” to me. Always gives me this weird anxiety that I’m going to break either OS (I’ve never broken any in my past dualbooting).
FreeBSD also runs well in Hyper-V. I think you can set Hyper-V to use a real partition as a virtual disk, which might allow using the same filesystem as a Hyper-V VM or a bootable OS.
It’s not though, the most common computer combination is an embedded system or phone running Linux
For me a computer is a different device then phone… but yes - technically an Android/iOS smartphone is a computer.