bydand
Senior Master
Well, I bit the bullet and decided that I could no longer work with the POS computer I was using. OK, it really started a long, slow painful death roll the other day and I had to replace it. Had been using a 6 or 7 year old Celerion 1.3 GHz with 256 MB of RAM. Lowly 20 GB hard Drive and a video card that had a hard time playing youtube videos without freezing up. Well, I think I have a new best place to shop online in Newegg. Dropped the meager coin for a complete new set-up and was suprized at how cheap it rang up to be. By Friday I should be surfing in style: AMD Athlon 64X2 5200Ghz processor; 2 Gig of RAM; dual 250 GB Barricuda HD's; PNY 512 Mb video (not a gamer so I don't need the high tech video); Raidmax case (Smilidon); New DVD burner... the whole 9 yards. Nothing really special, but I am excited about the upgrade from trash to something that can at least edit some video without puking it's guts out. I priced a similer system at a local shop, but they wanted way too much for it ($1800) and I wasn't willing to finance their delusions of grandor because I have built 90% of the systems I have owned (going back to the 8088 days and those GD dip switches on everything) and wasn't about to give them that much for a few hours of work. Everything came in under a grand, including a real honest version of XP Pro (Vista is too new, and if Microsoft holds true, too buggy right now for my tastes.) AS much as I wanted to dump MS in the ash-can, some of the programs I use, I don't know if I can get to run in Linux.
Question: Never have done it, but how problematic is a dual-boot of XP Pro and a version of Linux? And also what are your ideas on the best version for a Linux noob?
Question: Never have done it, but how problematic is a dual-boot of XP Pro and a version of Linux? And also what are your ideas on the best version for a Linux noob?