Re: Windows/Linux dual booting

Malke wrote:


Victor wrote:

I would like to experiment with linux on a separate partition on my
hard
drive. Is there a simple app that I can install that will allow me to
dual
boot? Like VistaBootPro? I have checked out the proceedures for
installing linux and dual booting but it seems very complicated and
not for the squeamish.

All Linux distros will let you dual-boot, but why not try a live distro
instead? Get Knoppix or maybe Ubuntu has a live version. These live
distros run from cd. You download the .iso and burn it using
third-party burning software. Then boot with the .iso and give Linux a
whirl. If you hate it, just reboot without the cd! Your XP will be
untouched.

LiveCDs are destined to give a user a bad experience, since they can only
run as fast as your CDROM is. If you want to give Linux an honest chance,
make it your primary OS on your primary machine for a couple months and
relegate Windows you your extra machine. Be willing to be flexible, and
don't think in terms of a Windows user, but as a new user, when you start
using Linux. Windows design is gratuitously different from the rest of the
computing universe at this point, so Windows experience is next to useless
on pretty much every other OS beyond the basic WIMP environment
(http://www.ursine.ca/WIMP_environment).

.

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