Agreed, use Virtualbox, get the windows 10/11 iso from microsoft's own
site, install windows in a VM just like you would another PC. I've been
doing this for ~20 years, as long as I've used linux as a full-time system,
and the only way to run windoze.
This also comes with the advantage of being able to leverage Snapshots. As
soon as your clean windoze vm is installed, registered all shiny and
unmolested, create a Snapshot of your image. Should your Dad get infected
in any way, or even just suspects it, before any upgrade, anything dubious,
just restore to that Snapshot, and good as new again to a perfect state.
I always get keys from gkeys24.com, win10 is like $7 bucks for a legit key,
win11 a bit more (but ew). I can forward you a latest ad, they tend to
hide windoze licenses from the main site to avoid microsoft's lawyers (I
assume).
-mb
On Tue, Jul 4, 2023 at 7:41 AM Snyder, Alexander J via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
> Michael --
>
> Yes, you can install Linux and then additionally install VirtualBox. From
> there you can download the Windows 10 ISO
>
> https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO
>
> and then install it. Obviously, you'll need a valid license key to install.
>
> There was a thread here recently about cheap and reliable windows keys
> recently.
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Alexander
>
> Sent from my Google Pixel 7 Pro
>
> On Tue, Jul 4, 2023, 04:21 Michael via PLUG-discuss <
> plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
>
>> My father is interested in Linux but he needs Windows. I HEARD that you
>> can d/l the windows ISO to usb and that it will install to the computer if
>> it originally came with windows. If that is true my question is: what about
>> if I were to install linux and then put windows into a virtual machine;
>> Could I do that? Where would I go to get the windows ISO?
>>
>> --
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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