Re: Dual Booting Rant
- From: ray <ray@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2006 13:26:10 -0700
On Sat, 07 Jan 2006 02:37:07 -0800, Macer wrote:
> I'm sorry but after about ten minutes of reading this newsgroup I realized
> that around 90% of the people here dual boot. Dual booting is usually done
> by someone who just wants to play with an OS. If you are serious about using
> Linux/fbsd or any other type of *nix software you all really might consider
> saving some pennies and dimes and buying a cheap ass system for $200.
>
> I am sorry but I am just not a fan of dual booting at all. I could possibly
> understand it if you have EXTREMELY OS specific things that you need to do,
> but if you are a person who writes here complaining that you can not see
> your Windows partitions in Linux.... then just get rid of Linux and go out
> and mow some lawns to make at least a P3/500 (which costs peanuts now). Slap
> a decent video card in it and you're good. There is absolutely no reason
> anybody should double boot. The ones who do are usually the coorperate
> coffee drinkers who like going into work talking about how cool they are
> because they run an operating system other than Windows.
>
> Please, just save yourself a headache and just build another computer. If
> you haven't built one before then you really have no reason to install Linux
> on anything. Most machines given out by PC manufacturers by default have ONE
> operating system. Know why? Because they don't want to deal with some guy
> calling up for three hours still asking, "Why can't I see the stuff I saved
> in Linux." Somewhere, some dual booter is sending a Dell customer service
> representative one more step closer to suicide with stupid questions about
> Windows/Linux dual booting. Go on IRC and ask someone. Then again about 60%
> of all people who dual boot don't even know what IRC is.
>
> Sorry for the rant.
>
> http://www.ebay.com <- cheap computers.. bought a G3/500 for $80 (which can
> run Linux but I chose OSX)
>
> If you are just trying to learn how to use Linux... then building a computer
> should be your first step. Then you could at least get a sense of how the
> hardwrae works. Don't just grab your damn Hewlett Packard laptop and slap a
> Redhat (which I also hate) CD in there and rip your hard drive apart with
> partitions so you can dual boot. It is a waste of time and takes from the
> real learning experience.
>
> - Mace
I would disagree with your assessment. It is frequently a good idea to
dual-boot while in transition from one environment to another. I've done
that in the past, particularly when converting my wife to Linux. I now
have multi-boot scenarios set up almost constantly. Right now, I have
three different Linux systems install on one computer because I'm
evaluating them to see which distro fits new needs the best. With modern
distros (particularly Debian derivatives) it is exceedingly simple to set
up multi-boots - they will automagically set up every installed OS as the
last step of the install process - no reason NOT to.
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