Water? What’s that?

It’s amazing how trivial stuff, like a desktop shortcut in Windows or a Mac waking up when you open the lid, can be a huge pain in the ass in Linux. Work habits and t used for years without giving them a second thought were now gone. Habits have the habit, so to speak, to look natural. This means that until you get outside the box, you’re not even aware you were in it to begin with.

Speaking of boxes, around that time, I was introduced to virtual box at work. At the time we used it for an old app that still required Windows XP, so we had in running on top of a Windows 7. Then, in an introductory hacking course, The instructor was using Kali Linux (the one from Mr. Robot) in a virtual box. Kali Linux is not meant to for you to use as a main operating system but more as a tool. The people who work on Kali Linux know this and created Virtual Machine “templates” . When the instructor was going back and forth between VB and MacOS a light bulb turned on over my head…

Once I learned how to install and configure virtual machines, I was good to go. There was no need to restart the computer, no need to run Wine, and transferring files became a breeze. My Linux box became my privacy tool first. When I wanted to get away from the two big brothers, Microsoft and Google, my Linux box was an inviting island of quiet and independence. Eventually, this desire for privacy is what drove me further into Linux.

So take it from someone how tried and failed several times: Dual Boot? Don’t do it. Instead, try looking into using Virtual Box (or Virtual Machine). It’s fast, there are no boot issues, and you can drag files between the Windows and Linux. I still have my Linux running in a VM today, and I find that I spend most of my productive time there.

note: read part one here.