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Ubuntu, Linux...all confusion.
Mikan:
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--- Quote from: Mikan on October 31, 2009, 03:19:17 AM ---Argh! So, Im going to dual boot, off a External. If possible Windows on my primaryHDD and a linux system (Ubuntu) on a 250g IDE... teeny issue with that though, I will be using ubuntu for just music & video and working on internet. any other OS thats better for that? I heard ubuntu/Linux is awesome and isnt heavy on the cpu.
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That's odd, since to my knowledge Windows is still the most user-friendly OS for multimedia playback and gaming. Also, with regards to CPU usage, I doubt there will be too much difference between Ubuntu and Windows 7; W7 has been optimised for power consumption and shouldn't be as taxing on a computer system as Vista was.
On a final note, I am going to strongly discourage you against booting off an external drive. If it's a thin system like Puppy Linux or DSL (Damn Small Linux), perhaps it's not such a major issue. A fully featured Linux distro like Ubuntu is going to have many more files than a thin system, all of which will be accessed randomly. this means that the higher latency of an external drive is going to severely impact your experience, especially when accessed over USB.
I'd suggest getting a speedy 8-16GB flash drive (i.e. thumbdrive) for the OS and your applications, and perhaps another external (the 250GB IDE drive) for larger files and documents. The lower latency of Flash should help things out quite a bit (still won't be as speedy as a native internal install though), and you won't be crippled by the small storage space of a thumb drive.
You're free to go ahead and boot off the IDE, of course, just wanted to make sure you're aware that it may be much slower than you wished.
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If Ubuntu and W7 arent that different, Im still going to go with Ubuntu, because... Windows 7 kept hanging on me therefore I downgraded to XP again. If thats the case I suppose I will just dual boot and store all my files on the external.
fohfoh:
Just dual boot on the same HDD. It's not hard. Never use the windows install until necessary. Randomly open it to update or w/e if necessary. If you have a 300 GB HDD, 20 for linux, 25 for windows (maybe as a buffer) then have 250GB fat32 or something that can be accessed by both sides.
Or if really necessary. Use your SD card slot, stick in a crappy SD and then load linux on it.
Mikan:
My hdd is 160.
2.5 SATA
(sucktop)
im cleaning out my pc to make a good sized partition.
psyren:
Linux will probably be more efficient with space. Windows just flops out everywhere it sees free space.
halfelite:
Also another thing to check out is MINT. its a well polished distro like ubuntu.
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