Hi On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 05:03:44PM -0500, Jon N wrote: > Hi, > > I have been a Debian user for I'd guess 7 or 8 years now. I would > like to thank all of you that helped create a system that is so > useful. Despite using it for so long I am far from a power users, I > basically rely on the fact that it works well (or if it doesn't it > will soon :-)). > > My current computer is also about that old and I am finally planning > on buying some new hardware. A lot of stuff has changed in that time > that's new to me, so I would like to ask some general questions before > I purchase to save some potential headaches later.
Rule of thumb: stick with off-the-shelf stuff :-) You don't want to be the first guy with some esoteric hardware. > I guess one of the 1st issues I might have to deal with is UEFI, since > if there are any issues with that it could show up when trying to > install the OS. At the moment I'm not planning on installing another > OS on the computer, but that may change. I do have Windows XP on my > current system, but I will probably leave it there. I have considered > installed another Linux distribution in the future just to see how it > may be different. Hopefully different distributions of Linux will > play nicely, at least as far as the question of UEFI. I cannot help you in the UEFI area, but it should be relatively easy to convert your XP installation into a virtual machine - should run fine inside e.g. VirtualBox. > So, to sum it up, what do I need to know about Linux, or Debian, and UEFI? It probably "just works" :-) Only booting a single OS makes things much less error-prone here. -- Karl E. Jorgensen -- 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/20131111222518.GK19624@hawking
