How to set up a dual boot on a thinkpad

Michael Havens bmike1 at gmail.com
Sat Dec 15 15:12:07 MST 2012


Last year I got a new computer with WIN7 too and got rid of it within two
weeks.
Ubuntu is a derivative of Debian.
:-)~MIKE~(-:



On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 2:59 PM, Derek Trotter <expat.arizonan at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> On 12/15/2012 12:30 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 06:49:48PM -0700, joe at actionline.com wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks to all for all the suggestions. After wasting several days trying
>>> figure out M$ convoluted maze, I finally found a free utility called
>>> partition wizard that installed and instantly fixed the problem.
>>>
>>> It is incomprehensible and unconscionable that M$ is so determined to
>>> make
>>> everything so impossibly convoluted and difficult. Viva Linux.
>>>
>> I completely agree. My step daughter moved in for a few weeks and I got
>> to play with her Win7 netbook. After two days of wrestling with the way
>> M$ wanted you to do things, I said thanks but no thanks, and that was
>> with her showing me how and me reading a big manual she had with her.
>>
>> God how I love my Debian and it's not a matter of what I'm used to!
>>
>
> I can sympathize.  Last January I bought a computer that came with windows
> 7.  I tried it for about a month and was thoroughly disgusted with how
> difficult everything was in windows 7.  M$ made it so ******* difficult to
> network two computers together.   In xp it was a simple task.  Also some
> games I have don't run right on 7. I ended up getting rid of 7 and putting
> xp on the machine.  Then in November I got tired of xp, removed it and
> replaced it with kubuntu and I'm happy with it.
>
> You say you run Debian.  How does Debian differ from ubuntu/kubuntu?
>
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