Reply to Re: Considering OS switch from Vista
If you don't have an account, just leave the password field blank.
Defragment your Vista partition once or twice or you won't be able to repartition your drive properly.
Also, if you're going to do manual partitioning in Ubuntu's installer, make sure you have a partition layout like this:
- An ext4 partition pointing to / (root folder, where everything else goes)
- an ext4 partition pointing to /home (acts as your "my documents" AND application config storage folder). The advantage of having this is that you could later reinstall Ubuntu and not lose any of your app settings or documents.
- A swap partition equal to or greater than the amount of RAM you have. This is important if you wish to have hibernate functionality.
When Ubuntu installed, get Wine. It works pretty well for a fair amount of Windows apps. But don't rely on it when there's Linux native versions or alternatives of software you want/need.
Also, if you're going to do manual partitioning in Ubuntu's installer, make sure you have a partition layout like this:
- An ext4 partition pointing to / (root folder, where everything else goes)
- an ext4 partition pointing to /home (acts as your "my documents" AND application config storage folder). The advantage of having this is that you could later reinstall Ubuntu and not lose any of your app settings or documents.
- A swap partition equal to or greater than the amount of RAM you have. This is important if you wish to have hibernate functionality.
When Ubuntu installed, get Wine. It works pretty well for a fair amount of Windows apps. But don't rely on it when there's Linux native versions or alternatives of software you want/need.
