Fresh install Kubuntu 13.10: how best to partition the HD

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tuesday 26 November 2013 17:18:34 A.J. Bonnema wrote:
> Good to hear you have a different solution. But it is not the same thing.
> Linux lets you choose: MBR or partition. It is not Linux that chooses: 
> its you.

Again, you're not talking about Linux, you're talking about the crappy 
installer of Kubuntu! It doesn't matter where you install GRUB, since it will 
disable the bootloader you're already using and it tries to generate a 
grub.cfg automagically, something absolutely idiotic, that impossibly can work 
on some machines. This has nothing to do with Linux, it's a "feature"/"bug" of 
the Kubuntu installer. Sure installing GRUB won't damage Microsoft or FreeBSD 
bootloaders, you still can chainload those OS, but if you're already using 
other Linux distros and you already have installed another bootloader, GRUB or 
any other, this will be replaced by Kubuntu's GRUB.

The advantage of many Linux distros is, that they don't act like Microsoft 
does, but *buntu's policy is not an averaged Linux policy. *buntus misbehave a 
lot similar to Windows. Once you installed an *buntu, you need to customize 
the default install, usually not by installing additional services, but by 
getting rid of unneeded stuff, by _manually_ editing configurations and not 
using the flashy, but crappy GUIs.