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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Cheap box dedicated to windows software, and not connected to the Internet? It's what I do.
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I have been thinking about going dual boot for my next computer.
256 GB SSD running Windows 10, for games and the CD-ripping software (and any stuff for which I need Windows, often only temporarily), and one 128 or even 64GB SSD running Debian Linux, built from a netinstall for daily usage.
The computer would have a 2TB data drive, with an external counterpart for backups. 2TB is more than enough storage space for my use. I now have two 1TB drives, and I still have over 1TB space left. Most is used by my CD-collection, ripped to FLAC, and backups of software (GOG.com games, installation CD's ripped to ISO, etc...)
Still, Linux has so many problems when used as a desktop system... Red Hat being one of the biggest cause. They force unwanted changes onto the Linux users (Avahi, PulseAudio, PolicyKit, systemd, Gnome3) as aggressive as Microsoft pushes changes onto Windows users.
One of the biggest problems of Linux is the Linux upgrade chain, caused by keeping all software in one repository, and demanding that each library is only installed once in each system. (Kovid has ranted about this numerous times as well.) If program A is upgraded, and it uses library B, it might cause program C to upgrade as well, as it uses library B and D. But, because of that upgrade, library D will also upgrade, causing.... and so on. Upgrading one tiny utility might, in the end, cause you to upgrade the entire system including the operating system itself.
On Windows, I can (mostly) run 2001 software on a 2015 Windows, and often even the other way around.