Switching Operating Systems - The Application Game

In this video we discuss how your workflow and the application you use can affect if whether you can switch to a different Operating System. Application, being of paramount importance to your work flow should be reviewed before one even things of switching.
00:00 Introduction
06:35 Tracking Application usage
09:00 Applications I use for Linux
25:30 Conclusion

[@Puw1ng]

You have the ability to become like Dave’s Garage. Keep it up! I like seeing more experienced people who were in the tech space do what they like with modern tech?

[@retiredtechie]

Thank you for your comment. Not sure about becoming like Dave's Garage. I am very much a casual poster.

[@siocdenarf1010]

i wanted to give you the thumb up for a very good audio quality :)

[@retiredtechie]

Thank you for your comment. It is appreciated.

[@mrsrhardy]

A simple question, Ive seen how proxmox can be used to run OSs side by side with pass through graphics for gaming or improving codec support but how can I select between these OSs on boot with preferably a graphics GUI with a custom icon would be nice. RFIED can it be used or does proxmox allow for it somehow already? The idea is to make my single desk PC into an OS powerhouse! Second Q, can I plug in a SSD with a clean install Windows and add it to proxmox as a boot option or must I VM/Install it?

[@retiredtechie]

Thank you for your comment. I am going to make an assumptions, based on your question. The first assumption, you are interested in Proxmox on your main computer, rather than as a server running all the time. I am also assuming, for clarity, when you mention start at boot time, you are referring to system boot and not Proxmox startup, as that happen after system boot. For Proxmox you can set if a VM starts automatically, at Proxmox start up from the Options for that VM (Start at boot). However there is no way within the Proxmox interface to select individual VMs that have not bee set to automatically start. To do that, as Proxmox has shell commands, you wold probably need to write a scrip of some sort and run it at system boot. While I have never tried this, technically it should be possible, but it would get complex quickly. Because of the way current versions of MS Windows calculates device ID, if you tried plugging in a new install of windows done on a different computer, you will most likely have to go through a reactivation again. This will depend to some extent on the type of Windows License you are using. Form your question, I do want to ask, have you given any thought to multi-booting instead, where you can select an OS via the boot loader menu?

[@limbs1052]

Well said what's break the difference boundary of difference are "cross platform applications" dictate to stop theme W7 on Linux harassment has gone too far. Those Linux is not windows preachers are Gnome, Unity Ubuntu fanboy who slur W7 ugly for no reason they're overboard Windows haters unlike us windows refugee only hate W11 ugliness and privacy intrusive.

[@retiredtechie]

Thank you for your comment. Yes people like to dump on Windows. In the past it was mostly unwarranted. However Microsoft is doing their very best to make it applicable with the latest updates to WIN 11. Windows XP and Windows 7, in spite of many technical issues, were decent operating systems for most users.

[@siocdenarf1010]

Wrong, Mac OS is partialy open source under BSD License for the Darwin en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_(operating_system)

[@retiredtechie]

Yes this is correct, that the Unix part is mostly open source. But it is also true that the User Interface and API's are closed source. And without those one is just running another UNIX box, not a MAC.