Re: Everyone doing cryptocoins should be using Linux as OS by
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13/12/2013, 05:30:19 UTC Windows XP.
- It is sufficient to run almost all altcoin clients if you are not mining (they are nearly built for Win32 by default.)
- You can assign a separate VM to each client (no real opportunity for malware.) The overhead of a WinXP VM is not too large. Just don't give it write access to the host HDD!
- Fast User Switching is harder to exploit than sudo or UAC because sessions/processes are isolated
- There is no other OS so well-debugged for so long that is still having new software developed for it. Comparable Linux/BSD/OSX versions (i.e. those with no new features for a decade) are long abandoned.