Alright, here goes. Despite my long held dislike of Windows, and 7 in particular, it's managed to keep me contented long enough to last a whole three months, and one small issue that stubbornly refuses to be fixed is persuading me to go home to Linux at last. Except as past experience has taught me, some of the things I do (Civilization 4, for example) either don't/won't work under Linux or Wine, so I kind of want to keep it around for times like that. Now, as I understand it, using GParted to resized a Win7 partition causes it to fail to boot. So firstly, how exactly does one get around this safely, without having to reinstall Windows itself? Secondly, can legacy GRUB chainload Windows 7, or do I have to put up with the evils of GRUB2?
And lastly, the more Linux oriented one and a matter of personal taste... I favor Arch due to the practically limitless choices and simplicity. At least to me, anyway. But I have a habit of building my packages for it from source with a few custom options tailored to my system, similar to Gentoo, and only pulling in pre-compiled packages when that fails. This kind of suggests to me to give Gentoo a try again, except last time I tried, even with it's guide I completely failed to get it to boot. So basically... what's the general opinion - keep on with Arch, that I know I can install and compile as necessary, or give Gentoo a second shot? Right, I'm done. Excuse me rambling on again. It's a carryover from writing too much. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-04-05 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
