[ale] Best way to use both Windows and Linux?

[Boris Borisov]

Well if you need a lot hardware power for your apps (video graphics gaming)
thats were you host should be.
On Monday, October 13, 2014, Scott Plante <splante at insightsys.com> wrote:

> Three other options that come to mind:
> 4) Have a separate Linux & Windows box, and use Synergy to share a
> keyboard and mouse.
> 5) Install Linux only and use Wine or Crossover to run any Windows
> applications you need.
> 6) Install Linux only and use Citrix XenApp (or remote desktop, VNC, etc.)
> to run the occasional Windows app.
>
> I don't think there is necessarily a "best" way because it depends on your
> particular budget and needs. I use option 4 and find it very handy. All my
> work is done on the Linux box and the Windows box primarily displays
> documentation and the occasional required Win app. I've been running this
> way for years and it's worked out well for me, but lately the required Win
> apps are becoming rarer and rarer. We have a Xen server with various
> flavors of Windows I can also spin up as needed to test installs or some
> issue that might be related to the particular platform. We have a customer
> who has a surprising percentage of Macs now, and they use XenApp for
> everything that's not web based--and most of their internal apps are now
> cross-platform web apps now. That used to be the big hurdle for corp
> environments--some internal app developed in Visual Basic, PowerBuilder, or
> some such that only ran on Windows, and was necessary for everyone to use.
> The customer using XenApp actually uses it for their workers on Windows
> boxes too--that way those boxes can be low-powered and identically
> configured. The email and internal apps are web based and nothing
> particular to the worker is loaded or stored on the PC in most cases. It's
> essentially a terminal.
>
> Scott
>
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> *From: *"Paul Storey" <paul0123 at comcast.net
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> *To: *ale at ale.org <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ale at ale.org');>
> *Sent: *Monday, October 13, 2014 12:40:48 PM
> *Subject: *[ale] Best way to use both Windows and Linux?
>
> ALE List,
>
> For people here who use both Windows and Linux, how do you manage it?
>
> 1) Have separate Windows and Linux partitions available for dual boot,
> 2) Install Windows as a hypervisor and run Linux in a VM, or
> 3) Install Linux as a hypervisor and run Windows in a VM ?
>
> Each method seems to have it's pros and cons. I'm curious what others
> are doing.
>
> Thank you,
> Paul Storey
>
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