Wanted: Pro to build dual boot Ubuntu

[Doug]

On 09/26/2014 08:03 PM, NoOp wrote:
> On 09/21/2014 12:01 PM, Charles Irons wrote:
>> Hi All
>>
>> After reading your various advices again, I hope my response makes sense
>> and any comments are most welcome.
>>
>> Doug: I agree Win 7 will be better for me if I can find a source here
>> and will use it to shrink its partition to 20% of the hard drive.
>>
>> Colin & Pep3ts: I have saved the link to Team Viewer in case Unity still
>> gives me trouble. The new PC's graphics card should be fine.
>>
>> NoOp/Gary: This old PC only has 1GB memory/RAM and its Ubuntu + Win XP
>> was setup in 2005 with a helper and no detail of the process is in my skull.
>> Your very good suggestions would mean this old head must learn more new
>> components and applications.
>>
>> So my intentions:
>> Get a new PC in a desktop case so I don't need to get down low and my
>> 19" monitor can sit on it when we downsize.
>> The first quote is for a 64 bit I3 motherboard with 3.4 GHz cpu, 4GB
>> DDR3 memory, 1000 GB SATA 3.5" hard drive and a R/W DVD.
>> Learn Win 7 before trying more steps.
>> Make Win 7 shrink its own partition to 200 GB.
>> Install Ubuntu 14.04.1 that I have downloaded but must check its
>> integrity (seems smaller 625 MB than expected 981 MB)
>> Just found how to MD5sum/hash.
>>
>> That is my state of play right now . If you have stayed with me all this
>> distance , I thank you sincerely for your stamina.
> ...snip
> 
> Good luck with finding a retail machine with Win7... Nearly all machines
> now come with Win 8.x, and if they do offer Win7 they'll charge you an
> additional $100 or so. I also highly recommend more memory in a new
> machine. Memory is cheap these days (considerably cheaper than trying to
> upgrade the 1GB in your old machine), and were it me I'd opt to buy a
> machine with more memory rather than one with more disk. It's easy to
> add disks, a bit more complicated to add memory later. This is getting
> slightly off topic for this list, so if you'd like, feel free to contact
> me off list for any additional suggestions etc.
> 
> Gary
> 
Gary has given you good advice. I would add this to it: Get Windows 8.1,
as Gary has indicated. Right after you download and install an anti-malware
program, download and install a free program called Classic Shell. It will
make Win 8/8.1 look and work like Windows 7. Or even like Windows XP, I'm told.
(Haven't tried the XP sim.) Windows 8.1 boots tremendously faster than
Windows 7, and will run some software more quickly also. It will not be
out of date and out of support as quickly. It coexists with Linux nicely,
especially after you turn OFF quick boot. (It still boots quite fast.)
The reason for this is so will be able to interact with Windows from your
Linux system, which you otherwise would not be able to do. I am dual booting
this Windows/Linux combination, and I find I very seldom need Windows, but
there are just a couple of things you _will_ want Windows for. 
BTW: You are correct to let Windows shrink its own partitions.

--doug