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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Windows 7 is dead and there are going to be a number of unsupported programs such as Calibre. Dump Linux as it's a mess and install Windows 10 (not in a VM).
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Originally Posted by FrustratedReader
That's a very personal biased viewpoint on Linux. Some would claim Win 10 is a mess.
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ALL operating systems can be a mess. The race between the programmers trying to produce fool-proof programs and the universe trying to produce more ingenious idiots has the universe in the lead by a length.
As for not using VMs? I use them a lot to run various version of Linux, Mac OS X and Windows (server and personal). I've done this in Windows (XP to 10) and Linux (multiple distributions). Also doable under Mac OSX though I haven't personally done so. Yes, there are occasional issues such as the latest Windows Insider builds insisting that I change the hard disk type from SCSI to SATA or a Mac OSX VM not running some programs that require direct access to hardware, but overall I am able to support multiple operating systems without needing multiple computers.
Drawbacks? You need a decent machine (my current unit has a Core i9 8-core processor, 64GB of RAM and 3TB of PCIe SSD (1TB main, 2TB data) which is more than decent). Not all programs will work with the hardware abstraction getting in the way. As noted above, some programs such as the latest Windows Insider builds which broke support for SCSI hard disks can be an issue.
Oh, one last thought... When running multiple VMs, bring out the earplugs since the system fans are going to running at full speed.