Agree with other posters that you should experiment with Virtualbox before anything else.

You seem to be struggling with too many things at a time right now, and partitioning can be a dangerous task if you don't know what you are doing. (Note this is also true if you choose "guided partitioning" in these installers... They try to guess what you want, but sometimes they are wrong! Always do it manually).

Before installing a dual boot setup (or even changing anything to the hard drive partitioning), you should be 100% sure that you can reliably recover from data loss. You should be confident that all your data is backed up and can be retrieved AND that your Windows installation and all relevant software can be restored in case it got deleted.

Microzod,

I can only echo what others have recommended, namely to use VirtualBox.

It is not difficult. I was wary about using it initially, but there is nothing to worry about.

Ideally you could do with a second PC/laptop to follow the instructions on the link below, but if you write a few notes beforehand, it works just as well.

I suspect that it is only fear of the unknown that is holding you back.

Don't worry, you cannot wreck your machine using VirtualBox (unlike dual-booting).

VirtualBox for Windows hosts from here:
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Install Linux Mint on Windows host:
http://www.everydaylinuxuser.com/201...s-virtual.html

I have found my self not satisfied with my previous plan of doing things and I have installed Virtualbox, but don't get the following:
During the installation I did not really get any options at all, was I not paying attention or is there more than one install wizard for VirtualBox?

I have seen that I have gotten links posted on multiple occasions and you have convinced me that my hesitation is just that, fear of the unknown.
I often find my self frankly afraid by certain subjects, especially mathematics. But my exploration of electronics has turned out to be a constant flow of tackling unknown subjects but one of the big unknowns for me is still software.

I am confident that the material you have provided will enable me to et started with VirtualBox and Mint but apart from specifying where exactly I install it is there any other things to keep in mind in order to work with files and build folder structures within VirtualBox and having it stay the same in between sessions of VirtualBox?
I don't want to find out by doing this time:-)

Regards

Edit:
Aha the real settings comes when you are creating the particular VirtualMachine.

Following things like "10 things to do right after installing Mint 17.3" is still valid for Mint in VirtualBox right?

Microzod,

Have a look at this video before you start and make your own notes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq4HEkaS4uA

You first download and install VirtualBox in Windows, just the same as you would other Windows software.

Linux Mint, or whatever, is then installed on a virtual drive supplied by VirtualBox.

You do NOT need to worry about finding the right place for it to live. It is done automatically.


The guest operating system (Linux Mint) behaves just the same on a virtual drive within a Windows host as on a real hard drive.

Therefore “10 things….” apply just the same.

"installing on bare metal" is the opposite of "installing in a virtual machine". it just means making a real install on your hard drive (and not inside a virtual machine).

since you didn't get that, you misunderstood most of my post.

So now I am using Linux Mint and Firefox I think to post this.
I where not sure and I'm still not sure what I did while trying to get the pebble C SDK up and running but the first wall I ran into which took me a cuole of hours to figure out... was the fact that you don't see the passwords in the terminal while you are writing them. A little embaresing.

In any case I got through the process described at pebbles site but I don't quite understand how the terminal works, At home there are a folder named pebble-dev and I want to create a new folder inside of pebble-dev named project-folder and then inside of project-folder I want to create a folder named my-first-watchface. Finaly I need to call 'pebble new-project my-first-watchface' inside of the last created folder to set up all files needed for a pebble project.

But I don't get furhter than this, this is copied from terminal and //comments added:

david@david-VirtualBox ~ $ // home folder
david@david-VirtualBox ~ $ cd ~/pebble-dev/ // go to 'pebble-dev'
david@david-VirtualBox ~/pebble-dev $ mkdir ~/project-folder/ // make a new directory called 'project-folder'
david@david-VirtualBox ~/pebble-dev $ cd ~/project-folder/ // go to the recently created 'project-folder'
david@david-VirtualBox ~/project-folder $ // But now I am in a directory named 'project-folder' but its on the home directory...?

What is it that I am missing?
I really don't know how to search for solutions to the problems I have run into so far, do you have any good resources for a neophyte?

And finally, does anyone have any good tip for an text editor adapted to manage C/C++, JAVA, JAVAscript, HTML, PHP, and a coule more languages?

Regards

It's in the home directory because that is what you told the system to do with the above command. If you are in the pebble-dev directory and want to create project-folder there you would leave out the ~/ because that tells the system to create project-folder in the home directory.

mkdir project-folder would do it while in the pebble-dev directory.