Comments on: Adventures in Installing Windows and Linux http://www.everydayisbetterthanthenext.com/2006/07/05/adventures-in-installing-windows-and-linux/ Enjoy today because tommorow is going to be worse. Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:17:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Everyday Is Better Than The Next » Blog Archive » I Switched to Linux http://www.everydayisbetterthanthenext.com/2006/07/05/adventures-in-installing-windows-and-linux/#comment-351 Sat, 02 Dec 2006 13:32:20 +0000 http://www.everydayisbetterthanthenext.com/2006/07/05/adventures-in-installing-windows-and-linux/#comment-351 [...] Another 6-8 months rolled by and Ubuntu is still gaining speed and momentum.  Dapper Drake had been released for a while, and Edgy Eft was being talked about.  (A new version of Ubuntu is released every six months and they give it a new name with the next letter of the alphabet).  Right around the time of Dapper Drake, I desperately needed to do a clean sweep of my computer.  That is, I needed to reformat the whole thing and start with a clean install of Windows.  I decided that since I was going to do that I might as well partition some space off and install Ubuntu at the same time. (You can read all about that day in my post entitled “Adventures in installing Windows and Linux“)  I got Ubuntu installed but right off the bat I couldn’t get it to dual boot, and when I could boot it, using the Super Grub Disk, my wireless card wasn’t recognized and therefore I didn’t have the Internet.  I don’t know if anybody has ever tried to fix a problem, especially a driver problem, without having the Internet, but I’ll tell you right here and now — it sucks.  You have to boot to Windows, find what you are looking for, then boot to Linux to see if it works, find out that it doesn’t, boot back to Windows, look around some more, and so on and so forth.  I messed around with it for about a total of probably 7 or 8 hours before I once again said the hell with Linux and forgot all about it. [...] […] Another 6-8 months rolled by and Ubuntu is still gaining speed and momentum.  Dapper Drake had been released for a while, and Edgy Eft was being talked about.  (A new version of Ubuntu is released every six months and they give it a new name with the next letter of the alphabet).  Right around the time of Dapper Drake, I desperately needed to do a clean sweep of my computer.  That is, I needed to reformat the whole thing and start with a clean install of Windows.  I decided that since I was going to do that I might as well partition some space off and install Ubuntu at the same time. (You can read all about that day in my post entitled “Adventures in installing Windows and Linux“)  I got Ubuntu installed but right off the bat I couldn’t get it to dual boot, and when I could boot it, using the Super Grub Disk, my wireless card wasn’t recognized and therefore I didn’t have the Internet.  I don’t know if anybody has ever tried to fix a problem, especially a driver problem, without having the Internet, but I’ll tell you right here and now — it sucks.  You have to boot to Windows, find what you are looking for, then boot to Linux to see if it works, find out that it doesn’t, boot back to Windows, look around some more, and so on and so forth.  I messed around with it for about a total of probably 7 or 8 hours before I once again said the hell with Linux and forgot all about it. […]

]]> by: spenen http://www.everydayisbetterthanthenext.com/2006/07/05/adventures-in-installing-windows-and-linux/#comment-74 Wed, 19 Jul 2006 07:48:32 +0000 http://www.everydayisbetterthanthenext.com/2006/07/05/adventures-in-installing-windows-and-linux/#comment-74 I think it is worth it. As you say, sometimes it really gets screwed up, but on the other hand it's the same if you first install linux (or any other os) and then windows. Windows actually don't care if you have another os, or another bootloader, it just play dumb and screw your other os up :D. About the knowledge, you won't need to know scripting, programing or shell. My girlfriend uses ubuntu (when she's not playing the sims :D) and don't have to use the terminal, and she can do everything she wants to like read mail, surf the web, install new aplications, update the system, paly and download games etc etc. I would say, try again so that you can get a fair picture of ubuntu/linux. If you like it maybe you'll never use windows again. If you don't, well then you don't have to worry about the process of installing it until the next time you decide to try linux =). In my opinion linux is really excelent as long as you don't want to play new games on it. I think it is worth it.
As you say, sometimes it really gets screwed up, but on the other hand it’s the same if you first install linux (or any other os) and then windows. Windows actually don’t care if you have another os, or another bootloader, it just play dumb and screw your other os up :D .

About the knowledge, you won’t need to know scripting, programing or shell. My girlfriend uses ubuntu (when she’s not playing the sims :D ) and don’t have to use the terminal, and she can do everything she wants to like read mail, surf the web, install new aplications, update the system, paly and download games etc etc.

I would say, try again so that you can get a fair picture of ubuntu/linux. If you like it maybe you’ll never use windows again. If you don’t, well then you don’t have to worry about the process of installing it until the next time you decide to try linux =).

In my opinion linux is really excelent as long as you don’t want to play new games on it.

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