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Dual-Booters vs Single-Booters

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There are plenty of Linux vs Windows threads, but I thoiught of a more in-depth poll.

Personally, I use linux for everything (laptop) except gaming (desktop)
 
My main PC runs WinXP only.
My second PC runs WinXP, but also has SuSE 9.1 on the second partition, and Debian Woody / Testing on the second drive.
My third PC runs Win2K, and has FreeBSD 5.2 on the second drive.
My notebook is an Apple PowerBook G5 and runs Mac OS X 10.3.8.
 
I have two machines with similar specs. Both have ASUS A7N8X Deluxe Motherboards and Athlon Barton CPU's. One runs Fedora Core 3 http://www.bmore.us/screen2.png, and the other runs XP HOME. I tried dual booting Linux and XP, but it was a real hassle. So, I eventually bought a KVM and hooked up my two machines. This really helped me to learn linux because I could hop from one machine to the other when I had questions. It also let me learn about samba networking. Now, I am using Linux more than Windows.
 
Linux for everything, including gaming. Anybody who won't code portably is being economically irresponsible and is keeping themselves from making more money in the long run. 😛
 
Back in 1998 - 2000, Loki did a great job of porting Windows games to Linux. I must have spent $300 on their software... Myth II, Railroad Tycoon II, SimCity 3000, Rune, SOF, Postal.... they had some great games for Linux.
 
Mostly Windows. I usually only browse, play games, and do papers, so I have little reason to boot to Linux anymore. XP is completely stable on my machine, so that benefit is nullified.

I boot to Linux to back stuff up to a drive (it's ext2 and I'm too lazy to just convert it). The only time I ever play around in Linux anymore is when that's going on.

The wireless network craziness in Linux and the apparent lack of decent dual-monitor X support have made Linux feel shoddy and inferior to Windows for my uses.

Never thought I'd say that.
 
Originally posted by: MDE
I dual boot Windows XP Pro and Windows XP x64 😛
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The "x64" designation makes the baby Jesus cry. Or at least me. If you're looking to make "x86-64" sound less technical, just call it "64-bit edition."

*sigh* Microsoft marketing... :frown::roll:
 
Originally posted by: bersl2
Originally posted by: MDE
I dual boot Windows XP Pro and Windows XP x64 😛
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The "x64" designation makes the baby Jesus cry. Or at least me. If you're looking to make "x86-64" sound less technical, just call it "64-bit edition."

*sigh* Microsoft marketing... :frown::roll:
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Don't blame me, I'm just calling it what they named it.
 
If I were to run Linux or a derivative of it, I would not do so by dual booting. I would use mobile racks or a drive switch and keep them on separate hard drives. Less silliness that way.
 
i do not dual boot. i use windows mostly, and linux (gentoo) on another machine. i found that it was easier to set up secure remote access to a linux machine.
 
Just got a new 80G hard drive. Went crazy and have 14 linux distros, WinMe, WinXP for me and WinXP for my wife. Use Grub and it works fine. Just have trouble when I want to try a new distro and all the shuffling around does havoc to the partition table. Wiped out my WinMe partition yesterday so I had to
Xcopy a working version from another hard drive. From there I used the Recovery Console and did a
repair of boot.ini using the Bootcfg /rebuild command. I have a separate stable system and use this mostly for experimentation.
 
Originally posted by: Basie
Just got a new 80G hard drive. Went crazy and have 14 linux distros, WinMe, WinXP for me and WinXP for my wife. Use Grub and it works fine. Just have trouble when I want to try a new distro and all the shuffling around does havoc to the partition table. Wiped out my WinMe partition yesterday so I had to
Xcopy a working version from another hard drive. From there I used the Recovery Console and did a
repair of boot.ini using the Bootcfg /rebuild command. I have a separate stable system and use this mostly for experimentation.
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I know for a fact that somebody's crammed more onto one computer (can't find the story, though). Add a few BSD. Maybe FreeDOS too, just for kicks. BeOS?
 
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
I think dualbooting is generally stupid. I have one OS per machine, just have lots of machines. 😉
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Haven't you learned anything from the energy hog commercials? 🙁
 
Originally posted by: Chaotic42
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
I think dualbooting is generally stupid. I have one OS per machine, just have lots of machines. 😉
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Haven't you learned anything from the energy hog commercials? 🙁
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Yes, not to pay attention to commercials.
 
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