Am Sonntag, 18. Januar 2015, 10:29:42 schrieb j...@ageinggracefully.ca: > I have never installed used nor installed linux on a laptop ($500 - $600), > however I have decided to buy one but before doing so I need some advice. > These are the questions that come to mind. > > 1. Graphics radeon or nvidia? I have nvidia on my desktop but have no > experience with radeon. In any case: Nvidia. Works like a charm.
> 2. WiFi what to avoid? I would prefer Atheros. Some nice options, other wifi-cards do not possess. > 3. Dual boot? What problems should I expect? None, if you follow the standard hard-drive rules (only 4 primary partions, or 3primary + 1 extended partition parted as you wish). I suggest (if you want to keep windows), to shrink the windows partition with gparted (there is a live dvd available), then install debian on the unpartitioned space. Note: If you want encrypteds filesystems, you might get in trouble, when changing the size later with gparted. So I suggest, to make a plan, how much space you want to give for every partition. Hint: Make the partition, where /tmp resides a little bigger, so that there is about 10GB free. Some applications (like a DVD burner) uses it for temporary files. In this special case, and you want to burn a blue-ray or a 8,5GB-DVD, then thios will come in handy. > > I will install Jessie from a thumb drive and upgrade to testing when Jessie > becomes stable. That's fine. Good luck! Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/1520949.B3ysHy109s@protheus2
