Odd places for a Microsoft Windows Crash (Photo credit: romkey)

Recently my Windows 7 system took a dive due to a combination of a nasty virus and a corrupted file system. From my previous posts you may have read where I switched to linux from Windows and are probably wondering why I went back? Well, changes in my job revolved heavily around a Windows based world and the majority of tools I use for that are Windows based. I just figured it was probably best to stick with that.

This time it's different and I thought it out a little more. I still really like Linux Mint and had tried out the Cinnamon version and absolutly adored it. With a little more research and planning I decided that Linux would be my primary OS and run Windows 7 in a virtual instance. This way I can snapshot the good instance and revert back to that if anything goes wrong. I'll still have access to my work related stuff and have a stable OS to do everything else with.