The benefit is not losing applications you cannot find quality linux alternatives for so that you can continue to work in the real world while playing with linux.

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I lol at your response and realize I am wasting my time.

Different software is great, but the reality is there is software most people want to use that doesnt have the greatest linux support, and many of the linux/open source equivalents just dont hold up.

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Because all your needs are not met from the bootcd. While a lot of functionality can be crammed into a livecd chances are you will want functions or software that have not been installed.

I assume this depends, but my experience is that the VM is much faster than the CD.

But its not a great comment. It completely skips over the fact that popular software people want to run will not run on linux, or will require a lot of work to make it run on linux. It's a biased fanboy post, thus not great at all.

Yes, and you forget to mention that in order to get popular software titles to work you have to spend a lot of time hacking your way through it only to make them work in the most wonky of ways. That sure is great.