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Emptied of expectation. Relax. ([personal profile] tinyjo) wrote2006-01-19 02:08 pm
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*twitch* *twitch*

Don't mind me, just attempting to install dual-boot Linux (Linspire, specifically*)on our PC...

* Because it's *easy* and I have no patience for learning curves atm.
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[identity profile] draconid.livejournal.com 2006-01-19 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
You should try Ubuntu, which is perhaps the easiest Linux I've ever come across. Except it's a bitch to dual-boot (well, I've only tried it with another Linux, it might work with Windows). Fedora dual-boots with Windows really easily and is fairly easy to use too.

[identity profile] pinata23.livejournal.com 2006-01-19 09:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Ubuntu dual boots really easy with Windows. Though I'd be certain that you put a boot partition in the first 8GB of the hard drive, or it will write a grub to the mbr that refuses to boot anything at all.

I'm using Ubuntu right now. The hardware detection is excelent, but I'm not convinced about the way that it tries to hide complexity from the user. And it changed my screen settings to 640x400 for some reason and I had to re-configure the whole X server in order to get back to something sensible.
Hope it worked out OK in the end Jo...

[identity profile] draconid.livejournal.com 2006-01-19 10:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, it took us ages to work out how to add a root login, and doing so by sudo didn't seem the most secure idea ever!

But for a first time Linux distro I think it's excellent. I have far less problems with Ubuntu than with either of my Fedora or Debian machines.
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