Dual booting Linux!

[Grif392]

Yeah! After being guided through it, and some experimentation of my own, Ie installed, and have fully working, Ubuntu Edgy Eft. It´s got some major advantages, actually.

[ben]

Ubuntu is great. While I'm personally more of a Slackware guy, I gotta give the Ubuntu folks credit for making a excellent, easy to use distribution.

[cyko28]

i'm curious, lets hear some of these advantages then...never been a linux user per se.....i do have DSL on a CD but only cause i was curious about the OS

[Grif392]

Lessee.
Total customization of the interface. Y'wanna change something? Change it.
Cross-platform support. Mac programs [some] run in it, Windows programs run in it, plus, it has lots of exclusive things.
Smaller, and faster. The OS itself is barely 2 gigs. Windows, at least what I have, is 3. Ubuntu organizes files better. It defrags in, literally, 30 seconds. And needs a lot less space to run well. My windows partition is ~14 gigs, Linux is ~7.
Programs are updated constantly. I log in, each day, and it automatically tells me that X number of applications have updated out. X is generally larger than 25.

[Was It Me?]

Appending to your list, Grif392 (if you don't mind ;)):

Linux distributions are normally free, as are many Linux software packages. Linux is quite stable. Linux is Open Source, meaning if you want to add a feature to the actual operating system, and have some programming experience, go right ahead and try. (Try getting the Windows source code from Microsoft. ;)) There are also some advantages to programming for Linux, but I won't get into those. :P

[cyko28]

if you did go into it you would lose me WIM? but thx...sounds interesting...i had DSL (**** small linux) and i use it in the event that someones comp crashes and i have to go over and change files...it's great for that...i suggest everyone have a bootable copy of linux for system recovery purposes...thx for the info guys