OS Agnostic » os http://os-agnostic.com Karin's blog about random stuff Sat, 07 Aug 2010 03:43:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 How to try Vista? http://os-agnostic.com/2008/02/how-to-try-vista/ http://os-agnostic.com/2008/02/how-to-try-vista/#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:59:03 +0000 karin http://www.os-agnostic.com/2008/02/how-to-try-vista/ Continue reading →]]> So I’m starting to think I want to try Vista. I’m getting really curious about it, and I don’t have enough operating systems to play with, right? Plus, I think it’s only $15 to buy Vista through campus, so why not?

So if I’m going to install Vista, the question is: Where? I definitely don’t want to install over XP- it would have to be in addition to, not instead of. (You can have XP and Vista on 2 different partitions, right?) I could put together my old computer (which would involve stealing the memory back from my current Windows XP computer) and do a fresh install, or I could try a dual boot on my existing Ubuntu Machine, XP machine, or laptop. My laptop would be easiest- I’ve already partitioned it for Ubuntu, I could just wipe that half. The advantage of the laptop is that it is a Tablet PC- so I can take advantage of Vista’s snazzy touch screen features.

Two problems, though- I dislike the idea of getting rid of Ubuntu on my laptop (*sniff*) and I think the laptop only has 512 megs of memory- the minimum for Vista. I’ve been able to run Compiz effects just fine on the laptop, though, so maybe it’s OK. If I do wipe Ubuntu off, I’ll probably try and get linux running under VMWare or something for demonstration purposes at least.

I think I’ll go pick up Vista today and decide what to do with it later.

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