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noob Linux questions...
I have wanted to get linux for a while and I think I will want to use it with my Sager(Compal IFL90), I will be using it with windows vista.
I want to use Linux for everyday use and vista mainly for playing games so I have been told that the best option for me is to dualboot, so I just have some questions concerning dual boot and linux.
1. How would Hard Drive space be divided between the two? or is it just used by both?
2. Can I set it up to where I download one program for Linux and it can also be used by windows? Like with music files can I have a music library in linux and it also can be used for windows?
3. I read that linux can read windows files easier than windows can read linux files, what exactly does this mean?
4. Aside from gaming I will need to use excel, powerpoint etc. I imagine linux has software equivalent to micrsoft office, but does it inclued excel, powerpoint etc.?
Thanks
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Re: General noob Linux questions...
1. Hard Drive Partitions depend on your usage patterns. Personally, I have three partition; one for Windows, one for the standard Linux directory (/), and one directory for personal files (/home). Just make sure you have enough space on your windows partition for games. The standard directory can be 10-20 GB or less, and /home can take up the rest of the space. However, this is assuming that Linux will be your main OS and that you'll only go into Windows for gaming.
2. Program installations are NOT shared across multiple OS. However, files can generally be accessed across OS (at least from Linux).
3. Although it depends on your Linux distro, your distro may automatically mount your Windows partition for you so you can access all your files on the NTFS (Windows) partition. Normally, only read access is supported, although you can install another NTFS driver for Linux for read AND write support. On the other hand, Windows doesn't like to play nice with other operating systems; Linux uses the ext3 file system so you'll have to google some stuff.
4. Open Office is a cross-platform, java-based solution. Test it out on Windows first. Of course, I've been using Open Office over Microsoft Office for a few years now since I'm too cheap to PAY for Microsoft Office. And yes, Open Office does have spread sheet, power point, etc. capabilities.
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Re: General noob Linux questions...
1. How would Hard Drive space be divided between the two? or is it just used by both?
The division of disk space between Linux-only and Windows-only is entirely up to you. But there are other considerations (discussed later).
4. Open Office is a cross-platform, java-based solution.
Open Office is not "Java-based". You can use a good deal of Open Office for real work without having Java installed at all. I've used OOWriter and OOCalc extensively without any need for Java. However, some parts of OO do require Java. The OOBase tools to manipulate databases are an example of parts of OO which require Java. Some wizards also require Java.
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Re: General noob Linux questions...
Thanks for the quick response.
I asked about file sharing and similar programs because I imagine myself wanting to listen to music on windows if I need to use a Windows specific program, so i was just wondering if my whole library would have to be transfered.
Also I was curious if I would have to download firefox 2 times one for windows and on for linux etc. Seems like I will.
I have 160GB So I plan to split it in two. Should be enough for windows to have my games and linux my multimedia, not that I think I will ever use up 100gb in total.
Also, I know CSS can run on linux, how well can it run?
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Also I was curious if I would have to download firefox 2 times one for windows and on for linux etc. Seems like I will.
Yes, you will.
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Re: General noob Linux questions...
I have 160GB So I plan to split it in two. Should be enough for windows to have my games and linux my multimedia, not that I think I will ever use up 100gb in total.
Based on what a pig Windows is, you'll probably want 100G Windows and 60G Linux.
Based on what a pig Windows is, you'll probably want 100G Windows and 60G Linux.
Cascading Style Sheets or Content Scrambling System?
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Re: General noob Linux questions...
The way I decided how much space XP would have was to speculate: +/-4GB for a fresh install, 1.13GB for AOE3, 8.9GB for my Steam games, 1.3GB for EE2, etc. Leave a little more space for the page file and possible some more games in the future and you're good to go. Currently I have 30GB for XP, and 80GB for Linux.
PS, I have run CSS on Ubuntu before. Use this howto to get it done: http://www.linux-gamers.net/modules/...DEX+Wine+Games
Also, if you have trouble with text in Steam, then you must copy Window's Tahoma font from the C:\Windows\Fonts directory over to wine's Windows directory. PM me if you have any problems, you probably will!