Dual-Booters vs Single-Booters

[skreet]

There are plenty of Linux vs Windows threads, but I thoiught of a more in-depth poll.

Personally, I use linux for everything (laptop) except gaming (desktop)

 

[REMF]

toy around with linux.

Suse 9.1

 

[WPFossil]

I have a seperate machine for Linux, no dual boot.

 

[halfadder]

My main PC runs WinXP only.
My second PC runs WinXP, but also has SuSE 9.1 on the second partition, and Debian Woody / Testing on the second drive.
My third PC runs Win2K, and has FreeBSD 5.2 on the second drive.
My notebook is an Apple PowerBook G5 and runs Mac OS X 10.3.8.

 

[timswim78]

I have two machines with similar specs. Both have ASUS A7N8X Deluxe Motherboards and Athlon Barton CPU's. One runs Fedora Core 3 http://www.bmore.us/screen2.png, and the other runs XP HOME. I tried dual booting Linux and XP, but it was a real hassle. So, I eventually bought a KVM and hooked up my two machines. This really helped me to learn linux because I could hop from one machine to the other when I had questions. It also let me learn about samba networking. Now, I am using Linux more than Windows.

 

[bersl2]

Linux for everything, including gaming. Anybody who won't code portably is being economically irresponsible and is keeping themselves from making more money in the long run.

 

[halfadder]

Back in 1998 - 2000, Loki did a great job of porting Windows games to Linux. I must have spent $300 on their software... Myth II, Railroad Tycoon II, SimCity 3000, Rune, SOF, Postal.... they had some great games for Linux.

 

[BW86]

Mostly windows, I dual boot Linux for toying around with.

 

[Chaotic42]

Mostly Windows. I usually only browse, play games, and do papers, so I have little reason to boot to Linux anymore. XP is completely stable on my machine, so that benefit is nullified.

I boot to Linux to back stuff up to a drive (it's ext2 and I'm too lazy to just convert it). The only time I ever play around in Linux anymore is when that's going on.

The wireless network craziness in Linux and the apparent lack of decent dual-monitor X support have made Linux feel shoddy and inferior to Windows for my uses.

Never thought I'd say that.

 

[MDE]

I dual boot Windows XP Pro and Windows XP x64

 

[bersl2]

Originally posted by: MDE
I dual boot Windows XP Pro and Windows XP x64

The "x64" designation makes the baby Jesus cry. Or at least me. If you're looking to make "x86-64" sound less technical, just call it "64-bit edition."

*sigh* Microsoft marketing... :frown::roll:

 

[MDE]

Originally posted by: bersl2

Originally posted by: MDE
I dual boot Windows XP Pro and Windows XP x64

The "x64" designation makes the baby Jesus cry. Or at least me. If you're looking to make "x86-64" sound less technical, just call it "64-bit edition."

*sigh* Microsoft marketing... :frown::roll:

Don't blame me, I'm just calling it what they named it.

 

[WPFossil]

Originally posted by: MDE
I dual boot Windows XP Pro and Windows XP x64

Yes, so do I.

and Suse 9.0 on my older rig

 

[Megatomic]

Originally posted by: MDE
I dual boot Windows XP Pro and Windows XP x64

Same here. RC2 is nice. Too bad Leadtek is screwing the pooch as far as tv tuner support goes.

 

[HappyCracker]

Linux for all except Sony's SonicStage (NetMD recorder)

 

[corkyg]

If I were to run Linux or a derivative of it, I would not do so by dual booting. I would use mobile racks or a drive switch and keep them on separate hard drives. Less silliness that way.

 

[veggz]

Just use XP, it's been fine for me so far.

 

[oog]

i do not dual boot. i use windows mostly, and linux (gentoo) on another machine. i found that it was easier to set up secure remote access to a linux machine.

 

[Nothinman]

All of my machines run Linux. I do have VMWare for Windows, but I haven't started any of them up in months.

 

[Basie]

Just got a new 80G hard drive. Went crazy and have 14 linux distros, WinMe, WinXP for me and WinXP for my wife. Use Grub and it works fine. Just have trouble when I want to try a new distro and all the shuffling around does havoc to the partition table. Wiped out my WinMe partition yesterday so I had to
Xcopy a working version from another hard drive. From there I used the Recovery Console and did a
repair of boot.ini using the Bootcfg /rebuild command. I have a separate stable system and use this mostly for experimentation.

 

[bersl2]

Originally posted by: Basie
Just got a new 80G hard drive. Went crazy and have 14 linux distros, WinMe, WinXP for me and WinXP for my wife. Use Grub and it works fine. Just have trouble when I want to try a new distro and all the shuffling around does havoc to the partition table. Wiped out my WinMe partition yesterday so I had to
Xcopy a working version from another hard drive. From there I used the Recovery Console and did a
repair of boot.ini using the Bootcfg /rebuild command. I have a separate stable system and use this mostly for experimentation.

I know for a fact that somebody's crammed more onto one computer (can't find the story, though). Add a few BSD. Maybe FreeDOS too, just for kicks. BeOS?

 

[n0cmonkey]

I think dualbooting is generally stupid. I have one OS per machine, just have lots of machines.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
I think dualbooting is generally stupid. I have one OS per machine, just have lots of machines.

Haven't you learned anything from the energy hog commercials?

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
I think dualbooting is generally stupid. I have one OS per machine, just have lots of machines.

Haven't you learned anything from the energy hog commercials?

Yes, not to pay attention to commercials.

 

[Nothinman]

Haven't you learned anything from the energy hog commercials?

You watch TV?