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 <k...@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. > > -- > Karl E. Jorgensen > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20131111222518.GK19624@hawking > -- Jon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CANcvmg2=3t2urr4nh7qn9n+51zobeesdevrdknkcfd2q6qp...@mail.gmail.com
