I'm not particularly consistent in migrating off Windows,
but (thanks to
me) my mother-in-law is.
Here main machine is a desktop running Scientific
Linux, a
Fedora derivative, though she's been the proud owner/donor
of a One
Laptop per Child (now, appropriately passed onto to
a child and a
grandchild).
The machine is an off-the-shelf Acer, priced down because it
came loaded with Windows 7 as M$ was pushing to clear old
inventory so the
same big-box retail shelf space would free
up to force Windows 8
purchases.
As used to be an option before UEFI/bootloader protection
was
forced on the market, I could add the Scientific Linux
boot without destroying
the Windows partition, and I did so
for the sake of one of her grandkids who
plays various video
games.
But the video card proved too slow for him (and
motivated
him to build his own system). So now the Windows partition
is
mostly forgotten. When one of us does boot into Windows,
it causes an
unpleasant side-effect of throwing the system
clock off by a few hours. So I'm
mainly aware of it because
of needing to use the root password to fix the clock
back
under Scientfic Linux.
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