On Sat, 2013-05-18 at 10:54 -0700, Pete Wright wrote: > I have a largish (389 gig) windows partition on this machine that has > become essentially useless (all my data backed up elsewhere, I think, > please Goddess) so should I just go ahead and try various distros on > this machine and boot into whichever one I want to use/try at any > given time?
Pete, my machine was a *nix multi-boot, several Linux distros and one FreeBSD install. Some days ago I _needed_to install Windows, to test hardware. Perhaps you should defragment your Windows and make it very small, but keep it, since you might want to test hardware in the future too. >From my experiences it's only possible to maintain two or perhaps three Linux installs, but to test different Linux DAWs it's can be useful to install much more Linux. If you only want to test different distros with different desktop environments, IOW if e.g. audio hardware is unimportant, it might be better to use virtualbox. FWIW I'm sharing virtual installs (vdis) for virtualbox by different Ubuntu Studio and an Arch Linux install, I only need to take care that virtualbox is the same version, so for Ubuntu I'm using the packages from the Oracle homepage and for Arch Linux I hold the installed version. Different distros have different integration of the desktop environments, it's possible to use one distro and to install all desktop environments, but 1. some DEs interact negatively with others, when tehy are parallel installed, this doesn't happen often, but sometimes and again 2. the same DE can differ a little bit using another distro. Regards, Ralf -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
