[ale] Linux install breaking windows?

[Cornelis van Dijk]

> I don't really care if it isn't practical. Dual booting is something I
> do not reccomend _at all_. But if you insist on it, then pony up and get
> a $40 320GB drive for the second OS. Hell, even a USB thumb drive could
> be used.

Suppose he had a laptop. Never heard of a laptop with multiple drives.
Cor van Dijk

On 2/9/12, JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:
> On 02/09/2012 08:32 AM, James Sumners wrote:
>>> Now that VirtualBox supports full-screen, multiple-head, 3D accelerated
>>> display, it is actually virtually transparent and significantly easier
>>> to use than rebooting over and over again.
>
>
> I stopped dual booting years ago and switched to virtualization. The last 4
> yrs
> or so, I've run my primary Linux desktop inside a VM under Windows.
> Initially,
> stability was an issue, but it got better and better and better.  These
> days,
> the hostOS gets rebooted monthly for _patch Tuesday_ and multiple Linux VMs
> are
> up until I take them down for that exercise or a kernel patch is needed.
>
> Performance is really good inside the VM for "productivity" apps.  I've
> played
> with GPU accel under virtualbox. Last June, it would lockup the graphics(
> Unity
> or Gnome3), but it got much better over the summer.  It was never "solid" in
> my
> use. In the end, it wasn't worth the overhead just to have eye candy in a
> GUI.
> I choose to run LXDE in both virtual and non-virtual environments. That
> decision
> was made a few years ago after using XFCE and Gnome and KDE, and CDE and the
> non-DE WMs. My next step will be back to fvwm2 if LXDE gets any more bloat.
>
> If you need to run both Windows and Linux, take a look at using
> virtualization.
> It will probably be easier and fit your needs.  It also removes the need to
> deal
> with WiFi drivers under Linux.
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