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Why We Can't Just Get Along: The Bootloader

Posted by timothy on from the issues-to-raise dept.

mccormi writes: "Byte has an article from the BeOS perspective on why we don't see more dual boot machines from vendors. Browser anticompetitive complaints are nothing compared to what's happening with the bootloaders since the majority of people using computers will never have the know-how or courage to make an OS change."

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  1. Perhaps because few would want them? by interstellar_donkey · · Score: 2, Funny
    Before we get upset and assume that there is some sort of corporate conspiracy keeping multi-OS systems off the shelfs, it seems a more reasonable explination that most people simply would'nt want to deal with Two OSws.


    There are execptions, of course (for example, many of the readers here). But why would your average end user want to have to learn two (or more) seperate OSes?


    At best, out of the box multi-OS machines could satisfy a small niche market of hobbyists and power users, and I'm sure somewhere those would make up a large enough marketshare to support a couple of vendors.


    But me, personally, I'll keep BSD on my machine I made for BSD, and my Windows on my machine taylored for windows.

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    The Internet is generally stupid
  2. Dual Booting == Having a mistress by Capt_Troy · · Score: 3, Funny

    My friend once told me...

    "Dual booting is like having a mistress, it's all great till they find out about one another."

    My experience (in dual booting, not mistress having) tends to agree with this.

    troy