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3 Reasons why you should dual-boot your computer

Most of computer users live their whole life using only a single operating system. Well, this seems to be fine for a "non-techie" users who only use word processing software and spreadsheets like MS Excel at home or office. But in my day-to-day experience using computers, I found that, whether you are tech savvy or not, you would like to consider to this and here are the reasons. 1. Troubleshootin g If you are Microsoft die hard fan, chances are your computer has been infected by a computer virus. And admit it, anti-virus software isn't enough to protect your computer. I encountered a virus that gets executed as the operating system starts. So what I did was to boot my computer to Linux (Linux can read other file system) to delete that virus since it hides in some folders and kept executing making it almost impossible to remove. You can locate and remove it manually using other OS different from the target without reformatting your computer. This process seems to be t...