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Weblog:   Why Linux?
Subject:   Dual-boot
Date:   2004-02-11 05:52:00
From:   Jonathan Gennick
Response to: Dual-boot

I'm not a big fan of dual-booting. I've tried it in the distant past. It's a pain to reboot just to use a different application. If I absolutely must keep Windows on a system, then there's no real advantage to me in further complicating things by installing Linux. That effectively would give me not one, but two systems to manage. On this one PC at least, it's either going to be one or the other, Windows or Linux, but not both.
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  • Dual-boot
    2004-02-12 20:45:39  ceplm [Reply | View]

    I guess, that dual-booting is not the best option for long run, but exactly for the purpose described by the author -- to get feeling of Linux and real-life experience, it is probably wonderful advantage of Linux.

    I would have some doubts about Sun Java Desktop -- according to some reviews I read, it is still slightly raw. However, because you are SuSE user, I would strongly suggest to take the newest SuSE, download the newest KDE 3.2 (SuSE is the biggest supporter of KDE), and go for try. I am non-programmer (actually lawyer by education), but I have been using Linux exclusively for all my computer work for the last five years and I am more than happy with it. And it is getting more user-friendly every minute.

    Matej
    • Jonathan Gennick photo Sun not best choice, was Dual-boot
      2004-02-13 06:07:32  Jonathan Gennick | O'Reilly AuthorO'Reilly Blogger [Reply | View]

      I agree with you about Sun Java Desktop not being the best choice for our PC here at home. On the one hand, Sun has done a good job, I believe, at putting together a distribution that does well at covering the office/email/browsing bases. We've even been able to play movies from digital camera with no trouble at all. My wife is perfectly satisfied, and my son hasn't complained a bit these past couple days. On the other hand, their subscription model makes no sense for home users. Frankly, I'm not convinced it makes sense for small-business users either. And then there is the so-called network effect. When downloading software over the net, it's easier, for example, to find rpms aimed at SuSE, or at Red Hat, than at Sun Java Desktop. In the long run, I'll likely throw either Fedora or SuSE 9 on that PC. In the short run, my daughter and I are planning next week to try putting Lindows on her Thinkpad.
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