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Goodbye? Linux

jefboyardee

jefboyardee

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I've spent over a year leaning a lot, like how to make a zillion partitions, how to test-drive hundreds of distros, how to make grub handle all that, and somehow how to keep Rollback, another MBR bully, available for Windows.

But I never learned what the point of Linux is for someone who already has a very workable Windows 7. I'm sure there's plenty of points but I missed them all so far. I'm likely to get a newer PC soon and may try Linux again, as a toy again, but this time in VirtualBoxes.

So I'm back to Windows-only for a while, just one partition, just to see if the bsods taper down on this beast... probably not.
 
Good Luck with your windows install :)

Each to their own. If you enjoy windows and it works for you then have fun with it.
 
Virtualboxes are the way to go! I can run almost any OS I want, make snapshots if I mess up, increase power on the fly, etc. The only trouble I have found is with Drivers but it's been mostly good. I think you're making the right decision. Now you'll have the best of both worlds.
 
VMs are great .. if you feel the need to mess around with various OSs

I keep meaning to do something with Linux but when it comes down to it, if I'm going to spend free time on a computer, I'd rather be playing a game :D

It's not like I don't get to play with various flavours of Unix at work - how wildly different can Linux be?
 
One VB question I'll have when I get a newer PC: it offers an option to load the guest OS onto the hard drive, rather than the whole thing residing in memory. That sounds like I good idea to me -- is it? I can't answer that myself, since my ten-year old box cannot make VB work at all.
 
jefboyardee said:
One VB question I'll have when I get a newer PC: it offers an option to load the guest OS onto the hard drive, rather than the whole thing residing in memory. That sounds like I good idea to me -- is it? I can't answer that myself, since my ten-year old box cannot make VB work at all.
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This is what I have set for my virtual boxes. You can install it into the hard drive. I use allocated space. What this means is that it will use up hard drive space as it fills up. For example, if I say VB 1 will have 40GB of space, it won't take up that space immediately. Instead, it will only take up as much space as it needs. If there is only 5GB of files, it will only take up 5GB of space on your hard drive (until it reaches 40GB). It's a nifty feature, and you could do that if you want.
 
I need to learn to setup a VB I never had or really have a need for it but would like to set one up just for the experience of it. I have a old 60gig internal hard drive that I have in an external usb case that if I decide to try out another distro I use. However I really don't distro hop anymore and have no clue as to what distro I even have on that disk at this point. But then again I'm an old hand with Linux not as good as some but better than others so I'm just average :)

Its my prefered choice simply because I like it. So many threads around of why you should or shouldn't but really to me its a very simple choice its called preference. So with that I say stick with what you prefer because that is where you are going to be happiest.
 
argedion said:
I need to learn to setup a VB I never had or really have a need for it but would like to set one up just for the experience of it. I have a old 60gig internal hard drive that I have in an external usb case that if I decide to try out another distro I use. However I really don't distro hop anymore and have no clue as to what distro I even have on that disk at this point. But then again I'm an old hand with Linux not as good as some but better than others so I'm just average :)

Its my prefered choice simply because I like it. So many threads around of why you should or shouldn't but really to me its a very simple choice its called preference. So with that I say stick with what you prefer because that is where you are going to be happiest.
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If you ever set up a VirtualBox, you'll find it's easier than you thought!
 
wizzrahdev said:
If you ever set up a VirtualBox, you'll find it's easier than you thought!
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yeah what little reading i've done on the subject it looks pretty simple and OpenSUSE is a good host system so that wont be an issue for me the issue for me is just getting of my duff and doing it. Just really have no need for it right now but may to test out betas of OpenSUSE.
 
For me, VB is very well laid out and easy to use. But, like I said, the ISOs I tried all ended up going to sleep. I had asked about that at their forum and posted a log, got a reply saying that my feeble PC was the reason. So I gave up for now.
 
jefboyardee said:
For me, VB is very well laid out and easy to use. But, like I said, the ISOs I tried all ended up going to sleep. I had asked about that at their forum and posted a log, got a reply saying that my feeble PC was the reason. So I gave up for now.
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What are the specs on your current machine?
 
Virtual machines are useful, but can be a pain in the butt if you need to reach outside of one into the network.

But then, that is my experience from several years ago. I can't even find my old OS discs so I can set up a VM to run some of my older games...
 
What are the specs on your current machine?
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...not sure I answered anything.
 
I put that second GB of RAM on last year. Even the neighbor PC guy who did it couldn't figure out why I would throw money at such a relic. I had no answer, but it has made it more capable of upping to W7HP.
 
just to see if the bsods taper down on this beast
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With nothing but time and curiosity, I'm giving quad-boot one more chance. Having read good things about free space planted between partitions, I've just made a bunch of fat32 and ext4 partitions, all with a 100MB free space in-between. That's likely more than necessary for this, but the space was available so I took it. Does this look safe:

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Oh well, the bsods returned. But I think, maybe, I found a culprit. I've been using Paragon ExtFS for Windows. Paragon ExtFS for Windows is a special utility which allows you to get full access to Ext2 / Ext3 / Ext4 in Windows. Things were going fine until I started running it again. And when I think about it, it pokes around in strange neighborhoods that Windows doesn't like to be caught dead in... we shall see.
 
Good luck. I don't have a big problem with Windows, I just can't afford to keep buying a new machine to get the latest versions of Windows. It would be best to buy a full Windows disc for installation, imo.
Running VBs is best when using Linux as the host, from my experiences. Having alot of ram is best also, more then 2gb of it.
 
I'm with you. I had fun from time to time, but sometimes too much choice is a horrible thing. For me the problems I had was something the Linux community never ever encountered and they could never help me because they knew nothing about the os I had with the desktop environment I was using.

With Windows, the windows community is easily able to help me because if there's ever something wrong, chances are they dealt with something similar before.

Reliability goes to Windows.
 
sfbloodbrother said:
I'm with you. I had fun from time to time, but sometimes too much choice is a horrible thing. For me the problems I had was something the Linux community never ever encountered and they could never help me because they knew nothing about the os I had with the desktop environment I was using.

With Windows, the windows community is easily able to help me because if there's ever something wrong, chances are they dealt with something similar before.

Reliability goes to Windows.
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Until one tries using Windows in the PRC. Been there, done that, got frustrated, Windows community couldn't help, gave up. Now use Linux Mint, Mac OS X and Android.
 
Until one tries using Windows in the PRC.
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Yes, I suppose being there forces a lot of opinions to change... yikes.

Now use Linux Mint
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Me too, although just out of curiosity, to see if I fixed the bsod problem. I also use SolydX for no reason other than I have a spare ext4 partition. Oh yeah, W7HP is my only real keeper, at least maybe until W9 arrives.
 
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