Dual booting

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    Is there anyone here that dual boots between operating systems? Which operating systems do you typically dual boot between? Which of those operating systems do you find yourself using more of?
     
    I did dual-boot for a month or two between Windows and Linux, but it sort of got annoying after some time and I wound up deleting my second partition and keep using only one OS. Unfortunately, I accidentally chose Windows when I was wanting to select Ubuntu; now, I'm just stuck with this, haha. Did try to re-installing Windows, but wasn't that much successful. Although, I didn't put much effort into it, either, so I suppose that could explain why. ;o; Going to give it a shot again at some point in future and see how it goes.
     
    I triple-boot Windows 7, Ubuntu 12.04 and Fedora 20 on my laptop, but to be honest, I don't really use Ubuntu nor Fedora anymore... It's just too much of a hassle to keep rebooting every time you need to do something on the other OS. Even on an SSD, you still need a few seconds to reboot, and the fact that I had to close everything down when I wanted to go from my main driver: Fedora to Windows for games, didn't make the experience more enjoyable.
     
    I dual-booted about 4 months ago between Windows 7, and OS X; was originally installed during the summer of 2012 so I had that arrangement for quite some time. Though the majority of the time I was using Windows 7 mainly for gaming purposes until I switched back to the latter for school purposes until I realized that I actually need a Windows OS for my program ;-; Now I'm looking to re-install it again so I can finally follow along with the class instructions when it comes to diddling around with Linux/UNIX this term. Aesthetically, I like the default appearance of the OS X, but another reason for using Windows was for the multitude of different themes that I found on DeviantArt, which were infinitely times better than either defaults.
     
    I just started dual booting Zorin OS today with my desktop and my laptop! I had a spare flash drive lying around, so what I did was take one flash drive and then load the ISO onto that.. then I took another flash drive and installed Zorin OS to that. It works so far and I've used it between two computers, which I think is really cool and convenient without having to mess up any partitions on either my desktop and/or laptop.
     
    I've previously dual booted Ubuntu on older computers, first in 2008, then later in 2012/2013 and this year, but on my current laptop, I've stuck to Windows. It "just works" and doesn't require as much fidgeting as linux. I have to admit, Ubuntu's unity UI looks pretty sexy, and has improved alot over the years.
     
    Back when I had a macbook air I had a dual boot setup between OSX and Windows 7 via bootcamp. Sometimes I use windows 7 for windows exclusive software but that was it.
     
    The only time I actually dual-booted was for a few days in order to salvage files off my Windows install, which at the time, had become FUBAR. A year later I tried dualbooting on a different laptop as an alt for my Windows install, but it seems the Linux kernel did not play nice with my wireless hardware.
     
    Last time I had a system with a dual-boot setup, it was my secondary desktop, which was dual-booting between Windows XP and Lubuntu 13. I had installed Lubuntu so that I could have something to use in case I didn't upgrade the Windows version before end of support (which I did, and ended up deleting the Lubuntu installation at that time.)
    In the past I dual-booted between MS-DOS/Windows 3.x, and Windows NT 3.x/4.0, on a much older machine (that I still have, but reverted to its original operating system, Windows 95 OSR2.), and had yet another machine that I set up a multi-boot with Windows 98, 2000, and XP at one time.
     
    I used to, but these days, I just use virtualization. Most of the programs I could possibly need to run will work just fine in a virtual machine. I run Windows 7 on my desktop and have an OS X VM, a Slackware Linux VM, and an OpenBSD VM. That's more than sufficient for my needs.
     
    Now in this computer I've got Windows 7 Professional for internet (Skype and hobbies) and Ubuntu 12.04 for work (two months ago I had Linux Mint), but I also use Knoppix via live-cd.
     
    On this computer I dual-boot Windows XP SP3 which I use 99.9% of the time, along with Windows 7 on an 85GB partition for compatibility and fallback purposes. I was originally going to put W2K on a third partition for the hell of it, but SATA III :(

    This Lenovo IdeaPad N585 shipped with Windows 8 but was systematically unable to handle the operating system and what I did on it regularly (web browsing, music, and coding simultaneously) without freezing for 10 to 15 minute intervals, so I downgraded to XP and slapped 7 along with it and use the former for pretty much everything. IMO this laptop probably can't handle the 7 that's on it, but it's not like I use it anyway.

    If I get a summer job (of which I'm searching today and tomorrow) I'm going to save my paychecks to buy a ~$900 computer build that will become my new computer, with this laptop going to my mother so she doesn't have to use the ancient eMachines sitting in her room (leaving that to my sister). I'm likely going to dual-boot a Linux distro (don't know what yet, but hopefully not anything Debian) along with 7.
     
    twocows said:
    I used to, but these days, I just use virtualization. Most of the programs I could possibly need to run will work just fine in a virtual machine. I run Windows 7 on my desktop and have an OS X VM, a Slackware Linux VM, and an OpenBSD VM. That's more than sufficient for my needs.
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    Initially for academic purposes, instead of re-installing Windows 7 to use specific programs, I tried using VMWare instead because I thought it would be less of a headache. Turns out I was wrong because for some reason the VM runs super slow, like it will take 5 minutes just to open a window. Thankfully I managed to somehow pass my courses without needing to get hands-on with MySQL, and all those Windows-based programs, but still, it would be nice to be able to actually do the assignments XD
     
    I've been using dual boot on my computers since I discovered linux; I love linux it's strong, flexible and perfect for programming but it has a lack of designing tools and some other programs like RPGmaker that I constantly use; so I'm always making doal boots in my computers, I use Windows and Ubuntu, I'd like to try Archlinux one day XD

    To make a dual boot in my new computer with Win8 was a pain in the ass, I had to completely shut down Win8 because by default it kinda hibernates and then manually partitionate my HDD, until then I had always used the automatic option of installing both OS's, but Win8 wouldn't let me do it.
     
    I'm running a dual boot laptop with Windows 7 and Arch Linux. Most of the time I boot up what I feel like booting, meaning if I ever get bored of one system I simply can use the other one. Having an OS that you've fully installed on your own is a pretty nice feeling, although installing drivers can be a hassle on Linux sometimes.
     
    Vanille Sky said:
    Initially for academic purposes, instead of re-installing Windows 7 to use specific programs, I tried using VMWare instead because I thought it would be less of a headache. Turns out I was wrong because for some reason the VM runs super slow, like it will take 5 minutes just to open a window. Thankfully I managed to somehow pass my courses without needing to get hands-on with MySQL, and all those Windows-based programs, but still, it would be nice to be able to actually do the assignments XD
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    VMware works great for me, and so does VirtualBox, and so does VirtualPC. I haven't had any problems with VMs running slowly, but I do have a somewhat recent and decently specced computer.
     
    I've never dual-booted a computer before (as I've just always used Windows and been happy enough with it) but I did dual-boot my HTC One late last year.

    I wasn't going to bother doing so initially as I was more than happy with running Sense (Android) and knew I could always simply flash a new ROM if I wanted to try something different.
    I then noticed that an Ubuntu ROM had been released. It was rather buggy and not a lot worked, considering it was an Alpha build, but I then felt the urge to finally try dual-booting.

    About half hour later, I was dual-booting between Android and Ubuntu and it was nice to have that freedom. It was short lived though as I found that I wasn't using Ubuntu due to how buggy it was. At that point, I removed the dual-boot and am simply waiting until either the developer carries on with the Ubuntu build OR someone else takes over the project.
     
    KidCarter93 said:
    I've never dual-booted a computer before (as I've just always used Windows and been happy enough with it) but I did dual-boot my HTC One late last year.

    I wasn't going to bother doing so initially as I was more than happy with running Sense (Android) and knew I could always simply flash a new ROM if I wanted to try something different.
    I then noticed that an Ubuntu ROM had been released. It was rather buggy and not a lot worked, considering it was an Alpha build, but I then felt the urge to finally try dual-booting.

    About half hour later, I was dual-booting between Android and Ubuntu and it was nice to have that freedom. It was short lived though as I found that I wasn't using Ubuntu due to how buggy it was. At that point, I removed the dual-boot and am simply waiting until either the developer carries on with the Ubuntu build OR someone else takes over the project.
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    I guess you know more than me. I wasn't even aware that phones could be dual booted like that!
     
    Terabyte said:
    I guess you know more than me. I wasn't even aware that phones could be dual booted like that!
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    Most can't be it's a great addition to those that can. The phones I know definitely can from personal experience are HTC HD 2, Samsung Galaxy S2, Nexus 7 and HTC One.
    I wish I had the technical know how so then I'd be able to delve into the kernels and take it to more devices.

    Most famously (well, within the mobile development community), the HD2 had some extensive work done to it a few years back and has been able to run a number of different OS's since then.
     
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