OS Wars

[Grim]

Hey Mix, during your stint with Linux, did you totally remove Windows or did you do a dual boot? And if you opted for dual boot, well did you experience any problems? I'm planning to do a dual boot on one of our older, slower laptops here.

I dual booted. Partitioned my hard drive first before installing Linux. I've also tried installing Ubuntu, Debian, Gentoo and Linux Mint over the same partition, without running into any problems Windows-side. Basically, if you partition your HD, issues from one end won't really spill over to the other, unless it's really the physical hardware that has the problem.

Regarding older systems, they should have supported drivers on Linux, provided that the hardware isn't too old.