Nervious wannabe new user asks for advice.

[David Tomlinson]

by way of balance [or muddying the waters] if you've come from, or live
in a predominantly ms windows environment - dual booting is a godsend.

i'm running fc3 and winXP pro on a tosh laptop. increasingly i spend
more time in linux, but there are still instances where i'm dragged back
to windows 

- mainly for entertainment purposes - my digital camera and mp3 player's
software have useful add-ons such as intelligently archiving files that
add to more than simply mounting them as drives [and of course every
lunchtime the development floor resounds to the thrum of wwII fighter
planes as we all take to the skies in airfix's dogfighter] 

- but also within a work environment - you don't have to be very complex
before you flush out inconsistencies/incompatibilities in documents and
spreadsheets both in terms of functions and display, and as the bulk of
our org are winOffice based, it's unreasonable of me to expect them to
bend to my will, so i bend to theirs.

increased usage of linux means that where as i'd previously reach for
photoshop i now spend a little extra time working it out with the gimp
[not something i ever expected to write in an email !!] and it hasn't
let me down yet.

installing was a doddle - i de-fragged my disk, used partition magic to
squash windows onto 1 half of my drive, left the other half unformatted
and fc3 spotted this, picked up the unused space, sorted out a boot
loader and loaded pretty cleanly...

i've lost sound and my wireless connection in fc3, but then so have a
few people!!, and it's only going to be a little spade work to get it
back. 

dual booting gives you a safety net - you don't need to be grappling
with a new os and application set AND trying to hit a deadline/work
under pressure, so i'd always recommend it while you find your feet.

rgds

david 

On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 15:00 -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> > Dual-booting Windows and FC3 is notoriously problematic.  The user would
> > do well to read up on the geometry issues that come up before doing a
> > dual-boot; as far as I know, the bug is still present in FC3.
> 
> Personally I believe dual booting causes more problems for the user than
> it is really worth.  Kind of like trying to learn to swim by sticking
> just one foot in the water.  Just can't do it.

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