{"id":38888,"date":"2020-02-20T22:45:10","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T22:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=38888"},"modified":"2020-02-20T22:45:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T22:45:12","slug":"home-computer-use-dual-boot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/home-computer-use-dual-boot\/","title":{"rendered":"Home computer use: dual-boot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about home computer systems: the tutor shares an observation.<\/h2>\n<p>\nLinux can allow dual-boot &#8211; a situation in which there&#8217;s another operating system (such as Windows) on a computer, but you can start it in Linux.<\/p>\n<p>\nToday I loaded Linux on an old Windows 7 PC. Taking the Linux OS for a spin, the browser at first complained about numerous sites &#8211; something about &#8220;a secure connection failed.&#8221; (I knew the sites to be okay, and verified them on a Windows 10 PC.)\n<p>\nLater on, it was fine with them. Perhaps updates were pending, etc&#8230;but anyway, the dual boot seems to work fine, including web browsing on Linux. The PC used to be solely Windows 7.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\nSource:<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about home computer systems: the tutor shares an observation. Linux can allow dual-boot &#8211; a situation in which there&#8217;s another operating system (such as Windows) on a computer, but you can start it in Linux. Today I loaded Linux &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/home-computer-use-dual-boot\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Home computer use: dual-boot<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1009],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-computer-use"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38888"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38893,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38888\/revisions\/38893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}