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An Experiment with Windows 7 64 & Linux Mint 64.
As valued senior forum member whs pointed out Linux Mint Mate is pretty good and makes a really good desktop system. So I created a Linux Mint Virtual Machine and although my typing skills are not the best (sausage fingers) I got the Windows shares working and then a quick goggle found out how to install VMWare Player 5 in Linux Mint. From my Windows Share I then copied across Windows 7 32 bit. The virtual machine was running on an OS running on a virtual machine running on Windows 7 64 bit. The Linux Virtual machine would not run in 64 bit mode due to a bios issue of Virtual Machine Support not set to on. Now I am going to figure out where to stick a real installation of 64 bit Linux Mint Mate so I can run Windows in a virtual machine. Why? Because I can. The thing that has always put me off Linux was the hoops and secret handshakes you had to do to get it to see things like MP3 collections. This seems to have gone away. It just works. I won't be giving up on Windows just yet, but this is my Plan M (for Mint). If MS don't provide a real desktop this is where I'll be headed.