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Post New Requests Here / Re: Go back to 98 drag-and-drop in Win-Explorer
« on: December 24, 2011, 03:21 PM »I didn't want to leave 98. Now I don't want to leave XP. Windows 7? You have to be kidding. How about Linux?Then what made you leave? If you are adamantly against changing to Windows 7 (or even XP for that matter), why do it? Computing is the epitome of change, and Linux is the most constantly evolving of all the OS's out there. If you don't like the changes, then Linux is definitely NOT for you.-mraeryceos (December 24, 2011, 01:40 PM)
If you are changing computers and the reason for change is hardware driver support (as I suspect) then get a copy of VMware ESXi or XenServer and install your chosen OS in the virtual machine. You won't get native access to everything, but pretty close, and you can keep the same VM for as long as you desire independent of the hardware you run on (as long as it supports Virtualization Technologies). If you wait till Windows 8 - despite what we hear and, perhaps, see - it will come with Microsoft's version of ESXi (called HyperV) where you should be able to install any OS there and pretty much ignore Windows 8 beyond that if that is an option for you (though I do suggest VMware as a more mature option). And as a bonus, you can have multiple operating systems on the same machine and choose whichever one you want at any time without rebooting (unlike multiboot options where you have to shutdown and restart to change OS's).