Author Topic: The machines are sentient and they're screwing with us  (Read 20202 times)

Offline Echnaton

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Re: The machines are sentient and they're screwing with us
« Reply #30 on: October 09, 2014, 03:49:05 PM »
I used Macs occasionally before they switched to the Unix type OS.  Great computers and easy to use.  I have too many programs that are Win only and my wife and I share computers sometimes.  So there is a significant interoperability constraint to deal with.
It's actually quite easy to run other operating systems (e.g, Windows, Linux) within virtual machine environments on OSX. Some of them, like VirtualBox, are even free.


I can just see the phone call.  While I am out kayaking on some faraway river my wife at an equally faraway conference needs help to boot a macbook and start Virtualbox to run the windows only programs for her work.   Not!

I am hoping to find time this weekend to give Win 10 a spin on Virtualbox. 
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new. —Samuel Beckett