On Thursday 06 April 2006 19:19, Craig White wrote: > it really doesn't much matter - generally, it's whatever is more > comfortable for the user but the user is likely to get more and better > help using grub on this list than the Windows bootloader. > > In general, I have found dual-booting a waste of time and energy and can > only see the point of it on laptops...for people not wanting to give up > the Windows option. > Unfortunately there are some times when it is almost impossible to do without windows. In my case, it is the need to run proprietary software, dongle-protected, to produce a particular proprietary file format to interact with a machine. I'm not saying it's impossible to get around the problem, and I certainly intend trying, but it's not a thing to get running between tea and supper. In fact I thought it impossible until recently, when I found that the dongle-producer does do some linux drivers. Anne
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