Play lots of retro games (NES,SNES,Neo Geo, DOS, etc).

Select Steam, emulated and Linux games.Then I’ll talk about what I use to accomplish various tasks, and a little helper we’ve created for new installs. First, I’ll break down what you would expect to use this OS and configuration for, and what you wouldn’t.

Previously I talked about using Scientific Linux 7 at work. While VMs do not provide perfect security, it’s a lot harder to break out of a VM than for an OS task to peek inside a process or hypervisor or VM system running under it. Instead, you are much better served running the VM Host OS as one you trust, in this case SL7, and as a Guest OS VM the OS you don’t trust, in this case Windows 8+. If you cannot trust the OS, you cannot trust it to not access network traffic or memory of a VM it’s running. One thing we have seen mentioned is run Windows 10 and use a Virtual Machine (VM) running Linux for all your “important” or private activities. Why are we talking about using Scientific Linux at home and work? Well, see our previous posts about Windows 10 which lays out why some of us are taking these steps.

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