Re: [orca-list] Using Ubuntu all the way now

[hackingKK <hackingkk gmail com>]

Windows like in many aspects is an absolute rubbish OS when it comes to 
FAT or NTFS.
I think even the swap space is not properly done and critical bugs are 
kept lingering for ages so that M$ can sell future version.
I had a friend of mine who did this same process 2 years back and he had 
same results as Andi got.
I certainly recommend having Ubuntu or Vinux as the main OS and then 
putting a proprietory OS such as windows inside a vertual box for what 
ever things Linux *currently* can't do for you.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.

On 29/01/12 11:17, Thomas Ward wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> Not knowing your system specs I can't comment on your own experience,
> but I noticed on a Compaq with a 3.6 GHZ processor and 2 GB of ram
> there wasn't much of a performance hit for me running Ubuntu in a
> Windows swap file. So I know it can work if you have decent system
> specs. I also haven't experienced the crashing etc you mentioned
> provided I don't fill the swap spaced with files.
>
> However, I do agree it isn't ideal if you are talking about using
> Linux as your primary OS. If that's the case then the swap space is
> only like 30 GB which isn't enough for the OS plus a lot of books,
> movies, your mp3 music collection, whatever. You'd have to store your
> files on an external drive which isn't always ideal if you are using a
> laptop.
>
>
> On 1/28/12, Andy B.<sonfire11 gmail com>  wrote:
> > Hi. I tried this method before, but it was slow, and after a point it
> > crashed windows. Not very useful if you want to try and run it as a
> > primary OS. Now I'm stuck with it, and aside from a few problems I am
> > trying to figure out, I like what I see so far.
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