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Oct 28, 2008 7:05 am
Oct 28, 2008 7:05 am
Subject: Re: Mapeditor
Yes and no. Linux can read and write on ntfs discs. The best way is to add another harddisk or resize your windows partition for that. About your progamms.. honestly: wine is like russian roulette. It's fair for office applications and most games but for coding and compiling? I'd recommand another IDE at least for coding and if you do programs for windows there's no problem to go for a dual boot system. IMHO a change to linux doesn't make much sense if you want to keep all your programms. There are so many other and perhaps even better tools avaible. You can always give it a try even without installing it. Download a kubuntu live cd and simply boot it. No changes on your hard disc are done and you can check (some) stuff out
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Quote by shaktazuki:
I am being serious when I ask this: is there a way to install linux without losing my data and leave me able to use all my windows programs, including my MSVC++ 2008 IDE?
Yes and no. Linux can read and write on ntfs discs. The best way is to add another harddisk or resize your windows partition for that. About your progamms.. honestly: wine is like russian roulette. It's fair for office applications and most games but for coding and compiling? I'd recommand another IDE at least for coding and if you do programs for windows there's no problem to go for a dual boot system. IMHO a change to linux doesn't make much sense if you want to keep all your programms. There are so many other and perhaps even better tools avaible. You can always give it a try even without installing it. Download a kubuntu live cd and simply boot it. No changes on your hard disc are done and you can check (some) stuff out
More on another thread or pm.
Bernd Kosmahl
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