...who cares? Those who use and love GNULinux are too many to count. And we will keep it not just *alive* but dynamic and growing and cutting-edge that other OSes will copy and steal from but will never ever match because freedom of thought and expression and creativity will *always* be richer and more profound than some dude in an office punching a clock and trying to develop new ideas for an OS.

Which is evidenced quite vividly by the completely banal Win8. Sure, it might have something smoking under that bonnet, but bottom-line, it *looks* pov. Whatever. Not something that is an issue to me. Not here to slam Windows or Microsoft. They have their place, certainly. And most KNOW that place. Most actually only know OF that place. Which is fine, too.

I have some nursing students who are disenchanted with all the frailties of Windows but who don't have the king's ransom to pay that other mob. I do have a solution, but it comes with a few caveats.

BTW, VirtualBox is pretty awesome. So, one can have ones cake and eat it too!