Dual Boot or Not?

[paulthom12345]

My question is would you reccomend dual booting ubuntu and Windows Xp or just using wine? Is Wine good enough?

[wowbag1]

Hi, I have run dual booting systems for several years with different configurations and the conclusion I came to was you can do it, and if your not in the habit of changing things all the time it can be quite reliable. But I would not recommend it.
I have one PC with Windows and another with Linux Fedora 8.
Its usually windows that causes the problems.

As regards Wine I only used it for a short while a couple of years ago and I know it has moved on, but from what I remember it depends on what programs you want to run and what hardware it is running on - CPU, memory, hard drive, from the aspect of speed.
I found it either did not run what I wanted or was slow.
I did not pursue that course as I had another PC I could just have Windows on.

wowbag1

[Jonathan183]

My question is would you reccomend dual booting ubuntu and Windows Xp or just using wine? Is Wine good enough?

I dual (or multi) boot. I would not intentionally kill off a working version of Windows unless you get really short of disk space. I never use Windows on the net but it does come in handy every now any then for driving an old scanner I have etc. Wine is good but you are running Windows applications in a Linux environment which usually but does not always work.

I'd recommend a dual boot until you are convinced you don't need Windows at all.

[Agent-X]

My question is would you reccomend dual booting ubuntu and Windows Xp or just using wine? Is Wine good enough?

I always recommend dual-booting. And no, Wine is not good enough.

[oz]

My question is would you reccomend dual booting ubuntu and Windows Xp or just using wine? Is Wine good enough?

I personally recommend dual-booting if you must run Windows applications, and not bothering at all with WINE. Just my opinion, though.