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Dual Booting is the method by which you set up your personal computer to have more than one operating system installed to its hard drive(s). This allows you to choose, at boot up, which operating system you would like to run. Say, for instance, that for the most part, Linux is going to do everything you want it to do, but you have an application or two that are Windows-only (and there are no free alternatives); well, you found that you just can't seem to get the application to install with Wine, and you don't want to run a virtual instance of Windows, because your system can't handle splitting up memory; well, then, when you need to run these few Windows-only apps, you boot up into Windows, but for the rest of the time, you boot into your favorite Linux distro.
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