Dual Booting and Ububtu

[Heathen]

Is it safe and is it worth it?

I am wondering what the downsides of Dualbooting is besides space.

Also, is ubuntu good enough. I am in it for the sexyness.

[randreach454]

do it up.
All I have to say, ive done it multiple times, and if the dual boot process goes wrong with the boot loader, its easily fixable to make both show up instead of just ubuntu

[Terin]

I dual booted with no issues. It lets you easily create a new partition of any size. I'd suggest you defragment before doing it, though.

The only thing would be GRUB (the bootloader that you'll see every time you boot up) could get annoying. However, you can set it to automatically boot on Windows within two seconds or less.

Ubuntu is great for new Linux people, in my opinion. Maybe someone could suggest something else, but I have never run Linux before, and Ubuntu worked great.

[Heathen]

Good. I am dling it now. 700mb so I am chillin' while my friend Josh (the guy who is gonna do this for me) plays with my new toys.

[klange]

Used to dual boot my laptop, which had Vista. Said situation has since changed (it was a very liberating day). One of my desktops dual-boots, never had any problems except some personal issues.

Grub is a powerful tool with many options, and even if you only have a Linux distro, it's a godsend, as it allows you to boot old kernels if some one breaks something.

[Mr.MonT]

Honestly as a ubuntu user for several years, anything you can accomplish in ubuntu is avaible in windows and easier to accomplish at the same time. If you have access to a LEGAL copy of windows, i would just stay with that to save time, frustration, and disk space.

If you really wanted to learn linux though may i suggest a slaxware based deriative?

[klange]

It's "Slackware" (Slax is a completely different deal), and Ubuntu is far more refined at this time. Slackware hasn't appeared on the noob list for ages. Your other comment sounds like someone who's been using Ubuntu for three days because he was forced to would say, especially the frustration part.

[Heathen]

Well its almost done dling and Josh has fallen asleep at the DDR machine so I am gonna do it tomorrow. Ciao.

(so bullshit about the ddr machine)

[SnaFuBAR]

I say go for it. I used a bootable knoppix disk to recover some files on an old laptop, and it was very easy to understand how to use. I would imagine that most linux based OS's are similarly simple.

[Heathen]

OK, I am Ubuntuing now and its pretty rad. I love the UI and all of its sexyness. Very easy to jump from my Aero'd out XP to this. I am using lots of shortcut keys already and I am loving the ease of use.

My only beef so far is their is this ugly error with the firefox that happens sometimes. I am also pissed that Google Chrome isn't for Linux yet :[.



But as for my opinion...this has worked out :D

[Jelly]

Yeah, Firefox sometimes crashes on Flash sites for me on Ubuntu. Also, it can sometimes hard-lock with wireless cards, but I'm not sure if the latest Kernel fixed it.

Cool OS though.

[klange]

Yeah, Firefox sometimes crashes on Flash sites for me on Ubuntu. Also, it can sometimes hard-lock with wireless cards, but I'm not sure if the latest Kernel fixed it.

Cool OS though.
Adobe has never been very good with their Linux Flash support, but Flash 10 kicks some serious ass and fixes to the two biggest bugs (Javascript menus appearing below Flash content, and no/shitty hardware acceleration).
Recent kernels have really helped with wireless cards.