On 18/01/15 03:35 PM, Doug wrote:
On 01/18/2015 12:21 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
On 18/01/15 10:29 AM, j...@ageinggracefully.ca wrote:
I have never installed used nor installed linux on a laptop ($500 -
$600),
however I have decided to buy one but before doing so I need some
advice. These
are the questions that come to mind.
1. Graphics radeon or nvidia? I have nvidia on my desktop but have no
experience with radeon.
2. WiFi what to avoid?
3. Dual boot? What problems should I expect?
I will install Jessie from a thumb drive and upgrade to testing when
Jessie
becomes stable.
I generally prefer Radeon. Their drivers are often a bit better -
especially the open source ones. NVidea has has some people swearing
at them instead pf by them. :)
Most wifi just works. If it doesn't, you can get a really cheap USB
wifi adapter.
Dual-booting shouldn't create problems by itself. However Windows
doesn't like having its partitions shrunk. I recommend doing a full
backup before shrinking the Windows partition then booting into
Windows immediately afterward.
Various folks differ on Radeon vs. Nvidia, but I won't get into that
except to say that my Dell laptop uses Nvidia and it works fine.
But the other question: I have heard that the best way to shrink
Windows partitions is to use the Windows system itself to do so.
Somewhere there will be instructions--Google is your friend. I used
GParted, and I had some trouble, not knowing about the Windows
capability. If I were to do it again, I would definitely use the
Windows software to shrink the partitions.
--doug
The problem with Windows is that it won't shrink partitions very much in
many cases. It seems to put some "unmovable" files at the end of a
partition and won't let you shrink it smaller than their location. I
don't know what the files are so I usually do a complete backup, use
gparted to shrink the partition, restart in Windows to have it fix the
file system, then copy the backed-up files back.
I don't know if this is overkill, but Windows is finicky enough without
having some files missing or damaged.
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