----------------------------------- Naveg Sat Apr 09, 2005 11:51 pm Windows apps on Linux ----------------------------------- I am planning to move to linux in the very near future. I have one hugely important question: For my windows stuff that works only on windows is the best bet WINE or a vm? ----------------------------------- Martin Sun Apr 10, 2005 12:03 am ----------------------------------- Depends. A VM'll get more things working, but it's not always convenient (why load Windows when you just want to play a game, for example). Most people use both. ----------------------------------- wtd Sun Apr 10, 2005 12:04 am ----------------------------------- Best bet if you don't need to be doing both at the same time is a dual boot system. ----------------------------------- Naveg Sun Apr 10, 2005 12:16 am ----------------------------------- dual boot seems to be the way to go....right now i have somewhat of a bizarre setup so i'll need some help currently i have (75gb): 15 GB for windows OS 60 GB for docs and programs how would i go about setting up a dual boot? parition sizes and all ----------------------------------- betaflye Wed Apr 20, 2005 6:48 pm ----------------------------------- Look into Codeweavers Crossover Office, it isn't free and is a frontend for WINE, that makes configuring things like Internet Explorer and Office XP very easy. ----------------------------------- Hikaru79 Sun Apr 24, 2005 1:39 pm ----------------------------------- dual boot seems to be the way to go....right now i have somewhat of a bizarre setup so i'll need some help currently i have (75gb): 15 GB for windows OS 60 GB for docs and programs how would i go about setting up a dual boot? parition sizes and all OK, those 15 GB are good. Keep it as an NTFS partition. Then, backup those 60 GB (good luck). From those 60 GB, create a 40-GB Fat32 partition (Fat32 so that both Windows and Linux can access it with a good degree of proficiency). Leave 20 GB as unallocated space. Then start up the Linux installer (I reccomend Debian, Ubuntu, or Gentoo). Each of these installers come with a partitioner. Basically, just throw the 20 GB of unallocated space at it, and it will generally make a 1 GB ext3 boot partition, a 512 MB swap partition (or more, depending on how much RAM you have, and what you want to do with your computer), and the rest as an ext3 partition for the actual filesystem. So now you'll have 15 GB for Windows, 20 GB for Linux, and 40 GB for shared documents and files. ----------------------------------- wtd Sun Apr 24, 2005 2:46 pm ----------------------------------- A good tip. To placate Windows, make sure it's the first partition on the drive, and make sure you install Windows first. ----------------------------------- Mazer Sun Apr 24, 2005 3:48 pm ----------------------------------- A good tip. To placate Windows, make sure it's the first partition on the drive, and make sure you install Windows first. Learned that one the hard way. Not that I'm terribly concerned with Windows having the second smallest partition on my drive :wink: