dual booting

[Skaperen]

Win-10 as main OS,mostly because i have all my 3D-stuff setup there.
My main editor for all OS is now Atom and ptpython as REPL.

• VirtualBox usually 3 to 8 OS now 3-Linux distros and 2-Windows.
  
• Digital Ocean 4 VPS droplet running now,2 forum(NodeBB) and usually some Droplet running test with Flask.
  
• Other Cloud stuff: Cloud9 as online editor,account testing PythonAnywhere,Heruko.
  
• Astrill as VPN,used for 6-years.
  

astrill looks nice.  but i don't see any ipv6.  i set up my own dual-stack vpn via a vps to get the ipv6.

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People throw away desktops/laptops with windows XP/7 like its trash. When all you have to do is overwrite windows with a light weight linux and its just as fast as its first day running (rather faster actually).

so many windows bugs == lots of free hardware

[wavic]

I've seen a guy who rid off a laptop because of a virus. He bought a new one

[Ofnuts]

I don't use VM. A VM can't use a hardware acceleration, can't access the hardware at all instead perhaps some peripherals such as USB and the DVD. As I know. I am far from an expert level

Depends on the VM software. The whole "cloud" runs on VMs. If there were performance problems doing so, it wouldn't. What you don't see in VMs are GPUs. But the whole CPU instructions set is available.

Same for peripherals. Depending on release/licence, the VM software can give full or partial access to the physical peripherals. Given that one purpose of VMs is to "sandbox" things not having such access is seldom a problem.

I have spent the last 5 years running a WindowsXP and a Windows7 VM at work. Believe it or not it ended up giving better performance than what my colleagues obtained running native Windows on the very same hardware. There were two possible reasons: 1) the logical drive was one single unfragmented file, speeding up the IO, and 2) running in a VM, a lot of the Windows ancillaries could be removed (I would have much more efficient equivalents running on Linux).

Another benefit: when my HDD died, it took me a couple of hours to re-install/restore Linux on the new one. And then 5 minutes to get a backup of the Windows VM.

[Skaperen]

I've seen a guy who rid off a laptop because of a virus. He bought a new one

lots of people do this.

when my father asked me to get rid of all the advertising in his first new laptop (he bought just to exchange email and access a few websites) several years ago, i installed Ubuntu on it.  he never wanted Windows back on.