[aklug] Re: Windows 8 + ubuntu

Good question even if the potential for flaming is high.....never the less,
IMHO...... Rather than a dual boot solution which could be problematic and
frustrating from the start taking into account UEFI and Windows 8, I would
suggest instead you purchase either a pre-loaded Linux Laptop (from your
email she appears to dislike Windows 8) there are several outfits who do
that (Google is your friend) and provide adequate recovery/restore disks,
thus reducing the prospect of borking two operating systems. Or a better
solution, which has worked for me for a number of years, is to purchase a
laptop with Windows 8 that has enough horsepower to run a Virtualization
solution, allowing you to run whatever flavor of Linux you wish without
nearly the hassle. I personally have been running an ASUS G72X with Win 7
and VMWare workstation and numerous distros for several years now. Although
the Core Duo is a bit light when I have to run several VMs the current
generation of Intel Core iX machines with plenty of memory and sufficient
storage ( I have an SSD and a 2nd Hdd) would be satisfactory for the
majority of purposes. Also by using a virtual solution you have access to
both systems rather than boot one or the other.

As always YMMV...... good luck!

And Happy New Year
Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: aklug-bounce@aklug.org [mailto:aklug-bounce@aklug.org] On Behalf Of
Tim Johnson
Sent: Friday, December 28, 2012 9:56 AM
To: Aklug ML
Subject: [aklug] Windows 8 + ubuntu

My wife wants to get a laptop. I understand that all non-mac laptops are
generally being sold with win 8. My wife will like win 8 about as much as
she likes seeing a turd in a punchbowl.

Any one know of issues regarding setting up a dual-boot with ubuntu?

URLS ???
thnx and happy new year.

--
Tim
tim at tee jay forty nine dot com or akwebsoft dot com
http://www.akwebsoft.com
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