On Mon, 2013-11-11 at 03:32 +0100, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > > Le 10.11.2013 19:06, Jeff Bauer a écrit : > > On 11/10/2013 12:52 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > >> On Sun, 2013-11-10 at 12:44 -0500, Jeff Bauer wrote: > >>> On 11/10/2013 10:40 AM, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > >>>> On Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 08:17:06AM -0700, thomas aylward wrote: > >>>>> how does a novice begin with debian? Tom > >>>>> > >>>> How does a novice begin with Linux - > >>> Burn, test drive, and used a live CD distribution for a minimum of > >>> a > >>> month and learn all you can about it. Then try some others. Repeat > >>> as > >>> necessary until you find a distro worthy of installing. > >> Simply start with one distro and after a while install two other > >> distros to the same machine, if the chosen distro shouldn't fit to > >> your > >> needs. > > > > Advising a novice at Linux to build and configure a multi-boot, > > multi-OS machine? > > Multi boots are usually made by beginners to keep windows aside linux, > which never works, because people will always tend to use the system > they know the most and/or on which they can do the most things. And for > beginners, that system is clearly not a linux based OS, but Windows. And > if examples are needed: games, CAO, and even simple drawing are easier > and less restricted on Windows. > So, I agree with you, advising them to do a multi-boot is not the right > thing to do. > > /But/ it was never said in previous message. Plus, linux beginners are > not necessarily ignorants of computer sciences. I was not. And finally, > since Grub is the most commonly installed boot loader, setting up a > multi-boot do not imply to configure anything. At least, with Debian, it > is made automatically.
I didn't advice to (1.) make a multi-boot from the beginning, I added "after a while" it might make sense to install (2.) additional Linux, not Windows. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1384161080.1047.2.camel@archlinux
