windows advice

[Stephen Partington]

My suggestion is to shrink the windows partition down to something minimal
and then install ubuntu. you will now have them both side by side. This
will give you windows for testing if needed, and allow you to sanity test
your hardware if needed.


On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 1:02 PM Snyder, Alexander J <alex at misteralexander.com>
wrote:

> Yep, no problem.
>
> Thanks,
> Alexander.
>
> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S8+
>
> On Mon, Oct 1, 2018, 12:44 Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> thanks for confirming my thoughts on the matter!
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 3:42 PM Snyder, Alexander J <
>> alex at misteralexander.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Assuming you paid the same for the windows box as you did for the Linux
>>> one ... dual boot it, or load Ubuntu into a VM.
>>>
>>> Although since you're only after an app that has a windows binary as
>>> well, then I'd just stick with the Windows box ... unless you gain
>>> something in Linux for this app?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Alexander.
>>>
>>> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S8+
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 1, 2018, 12:35 Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I don't want to void the wrranty
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Oct 1, 2018 at 3:33 PM Snyder, Alexander J <
>>>> alex at misteralexander.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Keep which ever one you paid less for. Format it and put Ubuntu on it.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Alexander.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S8+
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Oct 1, 2018, 12:26 Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I ordered an Ubuntu box from dell. they sent me a windows box
>>>>>> instead. I do not have a windows box and I probably should have one. I just
>>>>>> need it for darktable of which there is a windows version. Do you think I
>>>>>> should send it back? I'm thinking i should keep it.
>>>>>>
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