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- Easy to set up dual boot
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Ubuntu installer makes it very easy to convert your machine to dual boot. You can boot it up using the Live CD, then use Partition Editor to shrink your Windows partition.
My laptop now has a 50GB Windows partition, a 50GB Ubuntu partition, and the rest of the drive is formatted as NTFS so I can share the bulky files easily (Windows can't access Linux partitions without major effort on your part). Ubuntu mounts NTFS partitions effortlessly, and has Hibernate support built in (without having to install special drivers like I do in XP). Ubuntu even recognizes the Hibernate button on my keyboard, whereas in XP I have to install Dell QuickSet to make that and a whole miriad of other simple things work, and Dell QuickSet is another background task using up CPU power.
Anyway, my point is, for the W apps that won't run under U, you can easily set up dual boot, Hibernate U to go to W, Hibernate W to go back to U, etc (just remember to unmount NTFS partitions before hibernating, otherwise the partitions are marked as "in use" and inaccessible).
Finally, you can use free software VirtualBox to create a Virtual machine in Ubuntu to run any Windows apps natively within the VM, so you can use both OSs without rebooting. - Posted by: mbbreit@... Posted on: 04/25/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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