What is Best Linux for Windows 7 Dual Boot?
Friday, March 26th, 2010 at
19:25
I tried Mandrake years ago which promised an easy dual boot. Each time the screen would pop up asking if I wanted to boot to Linux or Windows it did not work. I am using Wireless internet so need a Linux that can see wireless with no problems. Any ideas?
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Filed under: Mandrake
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Ubuntu.
http://www.ubuntu.com
ubuntu is a good one
http://www.ubuntu.com/
There are plenty of options, Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntu.com/) being the most obvious, there is plenty of help to be had on their forums
other easy to use versions include http://www.knoppix.com/, http://www.zenwalk.org/ and the various flavours of http://pclinuxos.com/
An alternative to a dual boot would be something like puppy linux (http://puppylinux.com/) this is an incredibly small OS that loads entirely into RAM, is very user friendly and there is no need to dual boot as you can keep the whole install on a CD or USB stick and simply boot from there when you need to. And again there are plenty of helpful folks on their forums
I personally LOVE puppy as a Live OS, you can recover data from and run virus scans on dead windows installs
From a personal stand point I would recomend Puppy, Knoppix or Zenwalk over Ubuntu, which I have found to be a bit clunky in the past…. but it is prob’ly the best supported linux out there
Hope this helps