From Windows to Ubuntu. (QUESTIONS)

[m0skit0]

Wine does not work with everything and is certainly not better at running windows programs than windows itself.

You might be surprised to find out that some applications run faster on Wine than on Windows (even with Linux being over a virtual machine over Windows XP). Sometimes Wine is even faster than native Linux apps. It's actually quite shocking. As said on some forum out there:

Maybe they should port Wine to Windows

And definitely Wine does not run every Windows program, that's a fact.

you know that the majority of psp development tools (like psplink) were developed in linux.

The whole PSPSDK was developed on Linux, and same goes for PS3 or PS2. Most hackers do not use Windows, with many using Linux

What makes Linux the hacker's choice is that (almost) everything is OpenSource and freely available, after all Linux was made by hackers

Same goes for supercomputers, with Linux hitting 90%. Just ask (or read!) yourself why

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[HeroKing]

i agree with m0skit0 on his first post. do the safe install first, but be careful of updates on that. i ran the updates and it scr..ed up the grub system which handles the dual booting, and it made it to where i couldn't run anything. all i could do was a fresh install of ubuntu from scratch, which deleted my vista recovery files. now i'm stuck with 10.04 for good until i can get a vista or 7 DVD

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[m0skit0]

Sorry HeroKing, but if you scr..ed your Windows installation it was certainly not Ubuntu or GRUB's fault, but yours. I've had many problems with updating Ubuntu and GRUB (that's why I don't use Ubuntu anymore, but other Linuxes) and it never scr..ed my Windows installation except when I made a mistake. You probably erased your Windows boot sector. You can easily recover your Windows if you restore that boot sector.

[HeroKing]

i tried that. i read i needed a Vista Recovery Disc, which i got my hands on, but it wouldn't work >.< i found another recovery disc that was designed for my specific laptop, but it's on a DVD iso, and i don't have a DVD burner >.< i'm trying to get my hands on the files needed for a USB boot, but none of my contacts has a 32-bit OS i can get them from

[Askarik]

Thanks for answering my questions I will dual-boot each other. Thanks

[ASKidwai]

You might find this useful when you install Ubuntu.