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I obviously can't go complete linux, so I'm going to dual boot with windows.
Why is that obvious??? Many of us are 100%
Disclosure: I am only at ~95% at the moment....
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Originally Posted by gloomz
And if I have an 80gig hardrive, i'll put a 10gig windows partition.
And a 70gig Linx partition. But how big should the swap be?
Better solution:
10G Windows, 6-8G Linux, 20G shared data, and the rest unpartioned (saved for future changes)
BEST solution: Buy a 2nd drive to used for shared data
Swap becomes less important as you RAM gets larger--many say that it is not needed at all if you have 1GRam.
I'm lazy--I always set SWAP to 1 GB--I know it enough, and its not a huge percentage of the total space.
Yeah ok. I've got 1 gig of ram so I won't really bother with the swap.
Most installers will complain if no swap partition is setup. If you have 1GB of RAM and plenty of hard drive space, I'd say 512MB or even 256MB is not going to hurt and might be a good idea to setup *just in case* as there are benefits to having swap, even if it's not being used.
Basically anything with extreme eye candy and multimedia.
This isn't any particular distro though. Although some come with the tools and utilities already in place, it really depends on the Desktop and Window Manager you choose to use, which almost any distro can use..
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