I really wouldn't like to dual boot win10 and Ubuntu Studio as last time I did this after many boots and OS switches Windows corrupted
On Jul 27, 2016 11:39 AM, "Ross Gammon" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Matthew, > > Welcome to the team! > > On 07/27/2016 03:10 AM, Matthew Bearson wrote: > > I recently reinstalled my copy of Win 10 onto my laptop and never got to > > the point of reinstalling, in anyone's opinion should I just buy a > > VMWare Workstation license, download Virtualbox, or reinstall Ubuntu > Studio? > > It depends! > > To really/deeply test audio/video applications in Ubuntu Studio, you > really need Ubuntu Studio properly installed on your hard disk so you > are directly connected to audio hardware, and graphics drivers etc. > > You can install Ubuntu Studio alongside Windows 10 if you wish. There is > plenty of advice on the internet about how to do this (it involves > shrinking Windows 10 to make space - or an extra hard-disk). > > A lot of us have a machine that has a stable (older) version of Ubuntu > Studio for doing creative work, and another machine that runs the > developer version (currently Yakkety - to become 16.10) of Ubuntu Studio > for testing the latest stuff. > > You can install multiple versions of Ubuntu Studio alongside each other, > but this is a bit risky if some bug in the testing version causes your > "creative" version to break or stop booting (just when you have that > creative itch). > > I make heavy use of Virtual Box. You don't need a license for that. I > have 32 and 64 bit versions of all the supported Ubuntu Studio releases, > and the developer versions installed in Virtual Box. This makes it very > easy to take a snapshot, or make a clone of the virtual machine, install > test packages, test away, and then delete the clone, or restore the > snapshot if I break something. > > But you can't always reproduce all bugs in a VM, sometimes the bugs only > exist in the VM, and some applications just don't work properly (or at > the correct speed) within a VM. > > I hope that helps. Just sing out if you need more help. > > Regards, > > Ross > > > -- > ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel >
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