hey all,
I am posting after a long time.
I am planning to install Ubuntu.
First, I was completely against it due to the lack of compatibility.
But then I realised what do I do on the computer ? I browse the net and play games. Sometimes printing, media, lots of downloading stuff. But in the end there is counterpart for everything on Ubuntu. And as a matter of fact the game I usually play rather the only one I play now atleast, Blacklight Retribution(BTW it is awesome) is works under ubuntu (12.10 atleast) with wine(you must have heard of it...).
But then I realised there are other things also. So I have the following issues-
1)Will the wifi dongle - Netgear WNA1100 work under ubuntu ? does anybody know ?
2)Will my printer HP Deskjet 2050 J510a work under Ubuntu ? I have searched for drivers on the site but the ones available are ancient (date 2007) so I doubt if they might work.
3)Like installing windows if you don't format the partition , a windows.old is present with the former c drive. Is there anything like this with Ubuntu ? Because I am planning it to keep the only os for a while so I don't wanna lose the tons of file.
4)Is there anyway I can add it to my current windows 8 installation ? I know there are tons of guides but what I want is windows 7 bootloader so I don't have to reboot twice.
Also I have a problem with shrinking. I have a single partition on a 250gig hdd I can't do it more than 3020 mb which is ofc less. Is there any way I can shrink it more by moving the data to other sectors of the disk so as to keep it in a sequential way ?
Or create 3 partitions, by transferring my main data to a 100gig parition.
100 gig for windows and 50 for ubuntu ?(I have 70 gigs free on c)
5)Is it true that games have better ping on linux ? Is it even theoretically true ?
I am posting after a long time.
I am planning to install Ubuntu.
First, I was completely against it due to the lack of compatibility.
But then I realised what do I do on the computer ? I browse the net and play games. Sometimes printing, media, lots of downloading stuff. But in the end there is counterpart for everything on Ubuntu. And as a matter of fact the game I usually play rather the only one I play now atleast, Blacklight Retribution(BTW it is awesome) is works under ubuntu (12.10 atleast) with wine(you must have heard of it...).
But then I realised there are other things also. So I have the following issues-
1)Will the wifi dongle - Netgear WNA1100 work under ubuntu ? does anybody know ?
2)Will my printer HP Deskjet 2050 J510a work under Ubuntu ? I have searched for drivers on the site but the ones available are ancient (date 2007) so I doubt if they might work.
3)Like installing windows if you don't format the partition , a windows.old is present with the former c drive. Is there anything like this with Ubuntu ? Because I am planning it to keep the only os for a while so I don't wanna lose the tons of file.
4)Is there anyway I can add it to my current windows 8 installation ? I know there are tons of guides but what I want is windows 7 bootloader so I don't have to reboot twice.
Also I have a problem with shrinking. I have a single partition on a 250gig hdd I can't do it more than 3020 mb which is ofc less. Is there any way I can shrink it more by moving the data to other sectors of the disk so as to keep it in a sequential way ?
Or create 3 partitions, by transferring my main data to a 100gig parition.
100 gig for windows and 50 for ubuntu ?(I have 70 gigs free on c)
5)Is it true that games have better ping on linux ? Is it even theoretically true ?
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