Comments on: Linux: The Choice is There

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By: Kyle Korleski

Kyle Korleski — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 06:49:56 +0000

Where is Kubuntu in that pic, I wonder?

By: iiq374

iiq374 — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 21:48:23 +0000

bookmarks – what you are talking about is just Dual Booting – the main issue is that you need different disk partitions for the two different OS’s.
If WinXP is already on the laptop chances are it was installed to one partition (IE everything is dedicated to a single C: drive)?

That would make life difficult if you are not willing to reinstall windows… Normally if you were setting up a new machine you would just tell it not to take all the disk space when installing windows and then most Linux distros would install a boot loader (GRUB or equivalent) that gives you the choice when you startup what you want to do.

If you just want to play around with Linux to see what it is like just do a search for a LiveCD Linux install. What that generally allows you to do is boot up linux without even needing to install it which can be a good way for newbies to get aquainted with it in an easy low-risk manner.

How do you access the internet from your laptop? (modem / lan / etc)?

By: iiq374

iiq374 — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 21:44:07 +0000

Besides, I don’t think that there are any wrong distros
You and I know that – the issue is getting a more uniform impression of that out to newbies was the point of my post. Sure I can tell those people who I am in direct contact with that – but given my circle of friends that isn’t really a problem anyway.
What needs to be done is allowing people to get that impression without needing to know a “linux geek” personally to tell them that…

By: bookmarks

bookmarks — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 09:27:59 +0000

How can I load Linux On my laptop with windows xp so that I can use both windows and linux.
thanks

By: E@zyVG

E@zyVG — Wed, 05 Jul 2006 05:53:17 +0000

On the contrary, I think when you tell new users thinking of trying out Linux is that you can tell them that it’s not like Windows, only one product, but is available in different “flavours”. Tell’em that why not try out some of top5 distros, and pick what you like most.

Besides, I don’t think that there are any wrong distros …. you have to tell them … it’s what’s gonna suit them the most.

Other than that I agree with you.

By: iiq374

iiq374 — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 20:49:33 +0000

Part of the issue in the Linux world can be the plethora of choice for the newbie though.
I know a number of people who are put off Linux simply because they are afraid of using the “wrong” distro – and not being the types to install an OS once, they really don’t want to have to do it again because they find that they want/need to switch again.

Although it would seem to go against the grain of the distro’s trying to differentiate themselves from each other, it would help the community at large if they could do a better job of promoting:
a) That it really doesn’t matter which one you use – they’re all the Linux Kernel (a newbie doesnt need to get frightened with this Debian / RH difference )
b) What the sub-group of users targetted by each distro actually is – and pointing other users to which distro they would otherwise recommend!

By: Jeremiah

Jeremiah — Wed, 28 Jun 2006 03:30:38 +0000

Very good. I use Linux at home, but the rest of my family are older people and afraid of my “hacker computer systems” (as they put it).