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posted by janrinok on Friday March 14 2014, @01:35PM   Printer-friendly
from the is-that-the-sound-of-desperation-that-I-hear dept.

skullz writes:

"Hot on the heels of Microsoft easing up access to the Windows Phone OS are rumors of dual Windows / Android phones, able to boot into either OS.

The narrative so far is Android for personal use, Windows for BYOD to the office. I can see a company locking down a Windows Phone install so it can connect to Exchange and the company wifi but what would the two OSs share? Contacts and pictures? Would a bit of malware on one OS be isolated from the other?

It used to be that you would dual boot your Windows box with Linux, now that trend has reversed itself for your mobile. How far we have come."

 
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  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Friday March 14 2014, @04:25PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Friday March 14 2014, @04:25PM (#16615)

    Anyone who says they do this routinely is either new to it, and still wowed by the novelty, or just plain delusional.

    Rather needlessly confrontational and dismissive. I've been dual*-booting since 2008 or so, and the novelty has mostly worn off; now I like having a stable system I can configure how I want. Unfortunately, the classic reasons apply:

    1) I have a few productive programs, and a number of games, that I can only run properly in Windows.
    2) Windows is insane (interface-wise) lately so for everything other than the aforementioned programs, I boot Linux.

    And I REALLY don't feel like trying to run Civ IV in VirtualBox...my box is hardly beefy to begin with :)

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  • (Score: 2) by frojack on Friday March 14 2014, @05:57PM

    by frojack (1554) on Friday March 14 2014, @05:57PM (#16647)

    Rather needlessly confrontational and dismissive.

    True enough. My bad. I could have worded it better.

    Still, your post [dev.soylentnews.org] above the parent is a classic case of "Thanks for Proving My Point":

    That's just a recipe for disaster, but after my first 2 or 3 times I haven't had much trouble.

    Priceless! ;-)

    Its clear you do it because you can, not because you need to, and not because its efficient, or even practical. Same reason I run my own mail server, DNS server, FTP server, time server, etc. Its ok for me, but I wouldn't suggest it to anyone I want to remain friends with.

    And if you game a lot, when using Virtual Machines, you are well advised to choose your Host machine OS based on your gaming needs. Having said that, With VMware Workstation (not player), I can open a windows VM under my Linux Host, pop it into exclusive mode and still be competitive at some first person shooters. (Pro tip: bridge your nick - never nat, and buy some ram).

    But for the average person with a typical need of a second OS, (Windows or Linux), a Virtual machine is the easiest, safest, and most trouble free way to go, because as the replies to this thread have indicated getting Dual Boot to work is a never ending PITA, and breakage is right around the corner.

    Also, for mounting NTFS partitions in Linux, MOST of the problems have been solved and its ALMOST safe to do so, even read-write.

    But for years I have been using Paragon [paragon-software.com] (free version) which allows me to do this when necessary (rare), usually to work with an external disks shared with windows machines.

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