Re: [tlug] Need purchasing advice for a linux compatible desktop

[Godwin Stewart <godwin.stewart@example.com>]

On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 12:54:51 +0900, Dave M G <martin@example.com> wrote:

> For example, you could say that Wacom tablets are supported. In fact,
> they're supposed to be natively supported and "just work" in Ubuntu
> Dapper. But in my case, it took months of struggle before the drivers
> finally worked out.

In all honesty, it took a couple of e-mail exchanges for someone who's
never used your machine to work out what was wrong by looking at your logs.

> One piece of advice I got consistently is that it's easier in the long
> run to install Windows first and Linux second. The reason being that
> Windows, if installed second, will generally consider itself the only OS
> and very likely over write and multiple boot options that Linux had set.

And the partitions themselves in some cases. Things may have changed since
then but I remember that W98 would do just what you say - consider that
it's the only O/S on the machine - and appropriate all the disk space,
including the partitions on which you'd just installed Linux...

-- 
G. Stewart - godwin.stewart@example.com

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