Le Lun 25 février 2013 2:23, David Christensen a écrit : > On 02/24/13 16:48, Mark Filipak wrote: > >> Okay, here's my plan: >> Linux - Mainly for WWW browsing & email. >> Windows XP - For engineering applications & games - no networking at >> all. Either multiboot, or VMware player with Linux host/WinXP client. >> Comments? Advice? KISS. >> > > My first step at multiboot was multiple OS's on one drive -- major PITA.
Same for me, except that the only problem I had with the problems to make all systems communicating. This can be solved by various solutions: _ installing a common $HOME on a FAT or NTFS partition, and using it with all OSes (so, needs to install FAT or NTFS drivers on linux) _ let each OS have their $HOME/%HOMEDIR% distinct, and installing drivers for NTFS/FAT on linux and drivers for extX on windows (I never had those windows drivers working but it should be doable if there is a real need) I am still with the first solution on my desktop. > But, when I tried video editing on > a Windows 8 64-bit RP VM, it didn't work. I don't know if the problem was > Windows, VirtualBox, or both. I can't predict how your > Windows XP engineering applications and games would fare. Virtual box does not support applications using graphical hardware acceleration. Or at least, did not the last time I tried (well I do not know when it was... more than a year ago, at least). You will have less performance problems with wine, if your application is "supported", but the only ways I know to play with a computer running linux, is to use native games on linux, and a windows partition to boot on for games not supported (the great majority, sadly). I think it is also possible that your GPU's firmware is not as good as on windows. IIRC, one year ago (~feb. 2012) nouveau was not supporting 3D acceleration, by example. I do not know if NVidia's drivers are as good on linux than on windows, too, and have no idea for ATI. > My latest thinking for two OS's would be two SATA3 SSD's inside the cas, > one OS per SDD, and use the BIOS boot menu to choose. This configuration is the easier to use, since reinstalling windows (I have this need quite often, but I think it depends on the user) will not give problems (you will not have to repair linux boot loader). However, there will still have the problem for $HOME. For this one, I think the easier is to have a separated partition using a FAT/NTFS, since linux supports them better than windows supports extX. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/19e86a52be736d82a59199907fbecf27.squir...@www.sud-ouest.org