Hi Colin I've used both Ubuntu and Elementary OS in the last year, preferring Elementary simply because the UI is cleaner. Some people dislike Ubuntu's Unity desktop, I'm neutral there, for me Elementary wins because of its clean design.
Elementary is derived from Ubuntu. I see the newest version of Elementary, Freya, is derived from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I'd try to keep at least boot partitions for both Win and Linix on the SSD, ditto the linix swap partition and anything involved in running tests. I'm sure you can figure out some way to mount the hard drive under both OSes which imho would be handy. Eg Linix can read and write NTFS reliably these days I believe. How: Install LInix after Windows... This is sent after Rob's mail, but he talks about VMs, with enough memory you can easily and comfortably use VirtualBox to run Win under Linux and - as I recall - set up VB to have normal windows for each running application (ie not in a single VM window), so your desktop contains a mixture of Linux and Windows windows. mark Mark van Harmelen phone +44 7830 212 464 skype markvanharmelen On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 10:46 AM, Colin Kenyon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello All, > > I know this is not directly Ruby related, but a bit of advice would be > welcome, and, I use the term respectfully, you're the probably the best > informed geeks I know, not to mention the only ones!! > > I'm looking at installing Linux on my PC, and trying to figure out the > best flavour. > > Ubuntu stands out, naturally. However, it occurs to me that there may be > other platforms that could stick a GUI on top? > > I've used UNIX ages ago so I'm not afraid of the CLI, that's one of the > considerations I'm looking at. I think that it could be useful to learn > more about Linux by being able to use the CLI? > > Let's not worry about "how" I'm going to do this, just the "what" is good > enough for now. > > For the record, I've got a 250MB SSD and a 2TB hard drive installed, > running Win7. > > I considered reconfiguring so that the hard drive is C: and giving that to > Windows, then letting Linux have the luxury of the SSD, but all that is a > maybe. > > Thanks in advance > > Colin Kenyon. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "North West Ruby User Group (NWRUG)" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "North West Ruby User Group (NWRUG)" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nwrug-members. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
