One of the most important considerations when setting up a Linux PC is what to do about Windows.
In the following three blogs I will cover the three main ways of using Windows-only applications on a computer that uses [Ubuntu] Linux as its primary host operating system:
1) Dual booting
2) Emulating
3) Virtualisation
The fact of the matter is that most people, at least initially, are attached to at least one Windows-only application, and despite some really clever thinking from [Mark Shuttleworth], an everyday user still has to commit himself to a host operating system.
Incidentally, a friend of mine gets around the choice of host operating system on his very powerful computer by running all of his applications in three different operating systems, each one in its own virtual machines. However, this is still very much an expert's approach, to which there are still very high barriers to entry -- financial and technical -- and it is not what I will propose.
However, before we go into the three options, we need to understand what it means to have an operating system, and why some programs seem to run perfectly in both Linux and Windows, whereas others don't work at all.
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