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don't be shy why you still keep that windows partition
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I was windows free for 2 years, but installed it just to test KDE4 and some other stuff, although i don't use it at all.
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@work, virtualbox for BMC Remedy application software, but hardly used (not the main admin anymore
@home, one dedicated XP box, girlfriend doesn't want to learn Ubuntu and I play games.
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I have an old desktop running on Windows XP. Previously I left it with Windows because my brother used it and didn't know/want to use Linux. Now because nobody uses it I just use it to play around with. I've taken it apart twice already, and now I just leave it whenever I want to test Microsoft Office compatibility (which is once in a blue moon), and since it's got Flash MX 04 installed (which doesn't seem to work on wine) I leave it there.
Rarely used.
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I've got an XP Partition for stitching Panoramas (I once bought a licence for PanoramaStudio, which is a really nice piece of software imho) and trying kde4win, an I have a Virtualbox VM for quickly testing something on windows. I must admit that I didn't have to pay for the XP Licenses, they are from the company where my father is working (they've got one of these volume license keys
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I keep XP around for gaming and nothing more. It's a shame that I can't run games like Battlefield 2 effectively on Linux.
“Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect.â€
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I'm in the exact same boat as you. After Codeweavers released crossover office for free two days ago I can now run office 2007 fine, which is the only thing I really used it for. I still need to test CX Games to see if it'll play anything I'm interested in.
"Is there such thing as wisdom, or is what seems such merely the ultimate refinement of folly?" - Bertrand Russell
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I don't have any partitions for dual boot. My laptop is mostly used for programming (Java), so Eclipse and the JVM are very happy on my Linux. I have some games installed with wine, but they are also working without any problem (Blizzard games
 ).The only windows related software is an XP on VirtualBox - I can't find any alternatives for IBM - Rational Rose (UML modeling tool).
Last edited by akoskm on Fri Oct 31, 2008 8:32 am, edited 1 time in total.
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