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Yes,
Windows and Linux can be on the same machine. You have to look at Linux FAQ's to determine which to install first as I don't remember. The point is that it isn't difficult and it isn't crazy.
To switch the machine has to be rebooted. There was an effort to have an emulator under Linux (e.g. WINE) to run a windows session in a Linux window. I don't know the status but you take a performance hit
There are commercial products for running different OS's from within Windows, do a Google search. These are availablke for the MacOS as well
The latest versiuon of OSX is claimed to be able to run windows as a built in feature. Go to apple.com to find out
good luck
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∙ 16y ago
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∙ 14y agoSure. There are different ways to have more than one operating system on your computer at the same time.
On popular way is to install each of the operating systems on to a separate disk partition. Then, when the computer is started, you can use a bootloader to choose which operating system starts. This way doesn't allow both operating systems to run a the same time, but it allows them both to be installed.
Another way, is to use a virtual machine to have one of the operating systems running as a program in the other operating system.
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∙ 12y agoYes. but they cant be running at the same time.
You can, and you can use Virtualization (VMWare player or VirtualBox) to run at the same time. But you might have to enable virtualization in the BIOS (if it already isn't enabled)
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