what O.S are you using on your computer,are you satisfied with it?  

hi dear

after using your system for some days..vista will make your system very slower..it uses lot of processing speed..you will see the difference later in 2 months better to change your os to windows xp with the help of laptop company technician now itself..after having many datas in your system it will be hard to change the os..

thanks

adhavgeek

i don't think having a lot of data will make it hard for you to switch os. as long as you back up your data somewhere safe, you good to go.

hi nadec23

i do agree with you..i feel the same thing as you said here..in my laptop i was unable to change my os from vista to xp..so now i am using linux ubundu..thats great..highly secured os when compared to vista and xp..i didnt even use antivirus in my linux os,till now it is good..i used to have security updates of linux..where as in vista or xp we cant use internet without antivirus..there are lot of virus for windows products..

thanks

adhavgeek

I have ubuntu as well, it is AWESOME!

thank you for the information.
so do you think , linux will be compatible , with all softwares i'm using on my laptop ? especially the programming softwares ( like Matlab, Borland C++, Eclipse Java...) i really need all this compilers , on my pc, it's integrated to my studies program.
and there is also, this point, to be able, to use the two O.Ss on my computer, i mean Ubuntu and Vista , isn't risky ?
anyway thank you

hi awissa,

- You get g++ on linux, as a possible replacement for your BC++, unless you really need the windows headers, but then again, you can develop xwindows apps using Qt or gtk.
- you can get java6 jdk on linux either from the repositories (apt-get in ubuntu/debian) or from Sun binaries.
- you can install eclipse either from linux repositotiries or install using the tar.gz from eclipse.org
- I am not sure about MatLab, but in any case, you can run Windows applications in Linux using either WINE or CrossOver.

The other responses here have already excellently commented on how to do the multi-booting, so I cannot add anymore.

Thanks

hi, thanks for the response.
i also have a version of Ubuntu , that i get a few months ago, but i've not installed it yet on my laptop. people told me, that i will not be able , to go back working on vista .
i want to install Ubuntu with my current vista , so do you think it's possible to use both of them, in the same computer ?

It is easy, look at MY triple boot setup lol. Ubuntu makes it easy to use both if you have enough disk space. Just start the Ubuntu installer, it will show you.

Linux is fine, but it's almost impossible to use 100% of the time as a desktop OS. Please, don't think I'm lacking the skills; I've been using Linux for 10 years and I've written parts of it lol...But anyway, I've tried moving solely to Linux so many times but I always get pulled back to the dark side by my need to run Windows software, such as Visual Studio, MatLab, MathCad, and Chinese support in Linux is crap...Linux is fine if you can get by with open source software, but if you're forced to use certain Windows apps because of work, college etc. you'll be frustrated because you can only use it 50% of the time, and what's the point? That's just not convenient at all. Gah. One day I'll get away from all this Microsoft crap. Good luck to you though Swerdna - Keep spreading the word -_-

yeah, well..windows is free to, but from what I hear, Linux based OS are not compatible with most software, games or other app, it's that true?

Windows is free? When did that happen?

that's great, and are you using all these O.S on the same computer or seperately ?

hey, i've just seen "My triple boot " so it's possible, to have them all.on the same computer.
thank you for the information, i'll try to install Ubuntu.
first of all, i have to clean up my hard disk, to get enough space for the dual boot.
thanks, good myloting!