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"..Plan your partitioning in advance. I find the Ubuntu/Mint partitioning tool a little confusing - just the way my brain is wired, I suppose - worth googling a few tutorials first. My own preference, when dual booting, is to shrink the Windows partition (after a thorough defrag), check that XP or whatever is still happy, then to prepare my planned partitions on the remaining space, using GParted. I always have to think a bit then about how to tell the Mint installer just what to put where."
Great advice! 🙂 Easus is a handy tool too.
Wireless is always the biggest pain. The 1st thing I do is replace the mini-PCI card with an Intel one on any 'new' laptop. Cheating, yup, but saves a lot of faffing about.
Oh how I loathe those days where I have to boot Windoze for particular tasks... even if it is mostly in a Virtual Machine. ;)
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"..Plan your partitioning in advance. I find the Ubuntu/Mint partitioning tool a little confusing - just the way my brain is wired, I suppose - worth googling a few tutorials first. My own preference, when dual booting, is to shrink the Windows partition (after a thorough defrag), check that XP or whatever is still happy, then to prepare my planned partitions on the remaining space, using GParted. I always have to think a bit then about how to tell the Mint installer just what to put where."
Great advice! 🙂 Easus is a handy tool too.
Wireless is always the biggest pain. The 1st thing I do is replace the mini-PCI card with an Intel one on any 'new' laptop. Cheating, yup, but saves a lot of faffing about.
Oh how I loathe those days where I have to boot Windoze for particular tasks... even if it is mostly in a Virtual Machine. ;)
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