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I've been dual booting for the past few months but recently I've booted into suse9.3 and not xp. I was only using xp for torrent work but now that I've ...
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making the move to linux only OS
I've been dual booting for the past few months but recently I've booted into suse9.3 and not xp. I was only using xp for torrent work but now that I've got suse running correctly on that, and also after sorting out the issues I had with dvd playback and using pg2 I'm almost ready to switch solely to suse.
Any last thoughts and suggestions before I do so would be warmly received
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What I did years ago when I made the switch was to simply unplug the drive with Windows on it and work out my issues in linux without Windows help. That way I was able to really give it an honest try without destroying my working Windows installation.
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I would also recommend this, if you have your XP and Linux installs on separate drives.
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There's always that last bit of worry. To be honest when I dumped windows I only missed playing games and even then not really. More a PS2 kinda guy.
The biggest problem is for my girlfriend, as she is reasonably literate but finds things a little strange. Not at all unusable, just involving an extra seconds thought.
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Thanks for that guys, as I have a laptop I don't have a seperate windows drive but I haven't been using it for a while now. It's just the last step. After all, windows has been my OS since 95 and has done me very well.
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I have been using Debian and SuSE for 4 or 5 years now, and I still keep Windows XP on one of the machines with dual boot, just in case I need to do something that needs Windows. But I've been able to do everything on Linux for a while.
Linux has greatly matured.
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im just keeping windows for age of empires, hopefully cedega will work on aoe3!!!
all my other games are emulated including cs, war3, and guild wars...
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Re: making the move to linux only OS
As much as I dislike windows, I always keep it around as a partition. There are just too many apps or file formats, or even web pages that insist on using a Microsoft product. Linux still does not have work arounds for all of them. And while I do my best to ignore these Microsoft specific items, there are times for social, or even professional, reasons, that I do need to boot to WinXP. ... Of course it chews up space on the hard drive, and this is a drawback, especially with a laptop. ... Originally Posted by irish I've been dual booting for the past few months but recently I've booted into suse9.3 and not xp. I was only using xp for torrent work but now that I've got suse running correctly on that, and also after sorting out the issues I had with dvd playback and using pg2 I'm almost ready to switch solely to suse.
Any last thoughts and suggestions before I do so would be warmly received
IMHO the retention or deletion of a Windows partition is everyone's call to make, but I recommend having at least one PC in the house (that has internet access) that can boot to a Microsoft operating system (such as WinXP), and where this WinXP bootable PC is also on the home network.
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