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   Hello Sean!   
      
   Thursday April 07 2022 10:56, you wrote to me:   
      
   Remember that you can install Linux on a Windows based platform so that both   
   are installed and you during boot process -> Boot Manager select the system    
   you   
   wish to run with the Default being the previous system used (if not changing   
   any settings).   
      
   Just be careful during the Linux install to select the correct install.   
      
   Works very well as I use Linux boot manager on most of my systems to select   
   other systems or version of the same distro but I have broken down my primary   
   and secondary bootable drives to hold multi partitions using the GPT format   
   where each one is around 50 GB and I have an other drive to hold the /home   
   partition that I have set to auto mount for each one were needed.   
      
   /home used to hold the users home directories under /home i.e.,   
   /home   
   home/vince   
   home/fred   
   home/mbse etc   
      
   This way I do not have to rebuild all the data and software held on it for    
   each   
   distro or Linux version.   
      
   There again I can be sometimes a bit lazy and I do like a easy life when using   
   systems.   
      
   Bye the bye you cannot do the reverse i.e., first installing Linux then    
   Windows   
   as it does not have the facilities to add itself to say pre-installed Linux,    
   at   
   least every time I have tried it in the past but not done so since v7.   
      
   It might be worth an experiment with a spare HDD to do so just to see if it is   
   still the case.   
      
   Another option if running v10 & 11 that is fully up to date is to install WSL   
   with a Linux distro that is certified from MS - I have not tried this but   
   should work in a similar manner to my first suggestion.   
      
   I should note here that I keep on one of the MS development channels that    
   gives   
   me early releases of window versions, currently if I remember correctly at   
   10H2 or 11H2 last time I did a heavy update on my full laptop.   
      
   Does require me to have a lot of time for doing so as it is very slow in   
   downloading the updates despite having a fast ISP download speed (210 MB).   
      
   Vince   
      
      
      
    VC>> Simple fix - Install your fav. Linux distro :)   
      
    > My mother and I have actually been discussing that as of late.  The   
    > two programs she uses are Firefox and Thunderbird.  When I explained   
    > to her that I could move her FF and TB profiles over to a Linux   
    > install without any loss of productivity, she commented that she "saw   
    > no need to use Windows anymore".  Her older but still very reliable HP   
    > commercial color laser printer is well-supported via HPLIP and CUPS.   
    > Windows keeps breaking it.   
      
    > We'll see where this goes.  Converting her computer from W10 to Devuan   
    > Linux is going to take some effort.   
      
    > My dad will have to stay on Windows.  Due to physical disability, he   
    > uses Dragon Professionally Speaking for speech-to-text capability and   
    > there's no good alternative for that under Linux.   
      
    > My mother is more "computer savvy" than my dad but my dad has   
    > tramautic brain injury from being hit head-on by a drunk driver at 70   
    > MPH in 2003 so it is hard for him to learn and retain new skills   
    > anymore and even old skills can be very shaky at times.   
      
    VC>> Guessing it is, a local setting, does it offer boxes for user   
    VC>> name and   
    VC>>  password at log in ?   
      
    > It is a local setting but I can't figure out where it is being toggled   
    > on and off at.   
      
    > -- Sean   
      
    > ... If you stand by the sea, it sounds like putting a shell to your   
    > ear.   
      
      
   Vincent   
      
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