It's finally happening, I am ditching Windows where I can. When at Uni, all the systems use Linux, so I'm moving just to be easier lol. (And I said I would anyway)

Now, to do Fedora, Ubuntu or CentOS which they use hmm....

(prob fedora cos its easiest to install with my farked dvd drive (flash install ftw https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator))

Oh and Im still keeping a windows hard drive so I can still play games, so L4D still on the cards...

I was going to say, what about games. I take it by Windows HDD, you mean a dual boot with separate harddrives for each? Or are you going to switch the plugs when needed?

Keep us updated on your progress with Linux.

well i have my 80GB drive for data storage so ill just convert that and get a third party file system reader for windows to use the partititon as windows.

and then use EasyBCD to add it to my boot menu. (cos windows is gay and yada yada yada just good job I know how to do stuff right so it works)

Oh and I must go all linuxify on my laptop, cos windows just bogs that down (and no i will not use xp EVER!)

I been meaning to put Linux on my laptop...

Probably should. But I would lose a bunch of functions on my keys and stuff which would take some getting used to but... Probably worth it xD

Update on this:

Linux off flash drive FTW! That solves the issue of no disc drives (preinstaller on small flashdrive + net hookup for latest repo)

Umm, anyone suggest an ubercheap network card thatll work out the box on both windows and linxu?

I assume you mean wireless?

wired, as i need a second network port on my pc

Oh, I think most wired cards will work off the bat.

I've always been tempted to try out Linux, just for the kudos it earns you from Computer geeks... And because microsoft are evil obviously.

I have a Linux PC at home and it works well. It runs Ubuntu 8.04.

Update, both my desktop and my laptop now run both Windows Vista and Fedora 9 (soon Fedora 10).

The bootloader is the Windows one, which then when Linux is selected loads GRUB which loads Fedora. I would have done it the other way around but it is not possible!!! When Windows goes into Hibernation (which is part of standby, I put my computers into standby when I go out) it overwrites the bootloader for its own un-hibernation. If I were to try the other way around I would just end up with fail all over the place and no accessible linux.

And the patching from one to the other was all made possible by EasyBCD!

New stuff on this.

My main PC, I want to run Linux at the same time as windows, so I'm grabbing a copy of the latest VMWare server, and am going to run that to give me access to linux (all I need it for is to compile tbh)