On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 20:35 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 06 April 2006 19:19, Craig White wrote: > > it really doesn't much matter - generally, it's whatever is more > > comfortable for the user but the user is likely to get more and better > > help using grub on this list than the Windows bootloader. > > > > In general, I have found dual-booting a waste of time and energy and can > > only see the point of it on laptops...for people not wanting to give up > > the Windows option. > > > Unfortunately there are some times when it is almost impossible to do without > windows. In my case, it is the need to run proprietary software, > dongle-protected, to produce a particular proprietary file format to interact > with a machine. I'm not saying it's impossible to get around the problem, > and I certainly intend trying, but it's not a thing to get running between > tea and supper. In fact I thought it impossible until recently, when I found > that the dongle-producer does do some linux drivers. ---- I wasn't suggesting doing without Windows - only wondering out loud if it really was worth it considering that you can pick up a base machine suitable for running Linux for relatively little and perhaps even using a cheap KVM device to share the monitor, keyboard, mouse and have both computers accessible at the same time as opposed to trying to work through all of the issues of dual-booting. Here's my thinking...if someone's first exposure to Linux is trying to make a dual-boot Windows/Linux system, the steps necessary to get it to dual-boot might wear someone's patience thin and color their impression of Linux where if they took another computer (new or old) and didn't have to deal with any dual-boot issues at all, their energies are simply directed towards figuring out how to use the Linux system itself. Craig
