Re: Questions about new hardware & Debian (or Linux in general)
Thanks Karl - I was thinking it would 'just work', but wanted to make
sure. And leaving Windows out of the mix probably doesn't hurt
either.
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Karl E. Jorgensen
<karl@jorgensen.org.uk> wrote:
> 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.
>
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