Awesome.
Not missing playing games on your computer though?
That is the only reason for me to dual boot as well. Because I play games. If I didn't play games I would be on some Linux flavor 100%.
Nah, my gaming interests kind of died out. It's strange, because when I see Battlefield 3 footage I get all warm and fuzzy inside. But then I look at the money it costs and the fact I get brain dead bored after gaming for more than 5 minutes and I end up backseating that idea. Since my gaming interests kind of phased out, it's only further solidified just how unnecessary Windows is for me these days. That said, having W7 handy is nice in case that interest ever re-kindles. Very possible, but somewhat unlikely these days.
Well if I can find replacement stuff for what I do in Windows, I will stay with *NIX. I like openSUSE but not sure if it will be the one I stick with. If I can find software, it is easy enough to use. Debian is great. Just had some issues I couldnt overcome with my n00b knowledge.
I want to go back to Ubuntu, I just cant get past Unity. I dont like things on my desktop, period. Having Unity there in my face all time just annoyed me to no end, even more than Win8 did before I formatted it from my PC.
I'm not sure I'm following. Do you mean Unity when it's not set to auto hide? I set Unity to auto hide. What's ironic about Unity is I once hated it passionately. 11.04's Unity was a bust, however the developers even notated that it needed a ton of work, unlike Vista (if I dare to compare) that was pushed as great and amazing when the world's user base had a different opinion. 11.10 brought nice changes to Unity, but I still favored Gnome Shell. These days, I'm using 12.04 Beta, and I'm loving Unity. The more I use it, the more it simply makes sense. All I did with mine was set it to auto hide and had some patience as I got re-adjusted to it (again), but it turned out to be half decent.
That said, I try to be open minded about different desktop environments. I love each one for different reasons. Right now, Unity and LXDE are probably in my top 2, seeing that Unity is a usable desktop environment containing a more modern and eye candy driven look, whereas LXDE is just crazy small for some older hardware I have. On the flip side, we use XFCE at work with a custom in-house brewed theme, and I think rather highly of it and wouldn't vote to change it.
I would love to learn to do this. openSUSE easily allowed for me to install and have the switch auto setup for / and /home without me having to go in and do it. I have my SSD but right now only Win7 is on it and it is being wasted. I would really like to get some info on how to accomplish this task so I can use the SSD but not kill it with overuse.
You'd like to learn how to set up split partitions? I actually created a video a while back on YouTube. I thought I lost it but here it was under my old YouTube name, prior to the YouTube/Google merge. This is super easy to do, and majority of the time your experience with it will match the video's steps.
Advanced Partitioning In Linux: Splitting Root + Home Directories. - YouTube
WARNING - The following scenario below is likely information overload that won't apply to you if you're installing Ubuntu onto a single SSD/SATA drive.
In my case, my home directory resides on a RAID, in particular a software RAID controlled by the mdadm package. The mdadm package in particular is not installed from a fresh install, so naturally in the installer, I see two single 1 TB drives, instead of one solid drive like you'd typically see in a RAID'd mirror array. What's important is that I don't screw with them in the partitioner. I go to advanced partitioning, yes, and I select swap and root accordingly, but then I just move on without touching the RAID'd drives.
So, what do I do to patch my array as /home? It's a few extra steps, but still pretty easy. I simply install Ubuntu to the root drive, in my case, the SSD, and I do not split off root and home. Once installed, I boot into Ubuntu and install mdadm. Then I reboot. Upon powering up, the RAID array will be seen, since the drives are each tagged as a RAID device. The catch is, they're not seen as /home. So, fire up terminal and run "sudo blkid" and it fires back the UUID for each device. /dev/md0 or /dev/md(something) will show up. The /dev/md* is your RAID array. Copy that UUID, fire up fstab, and add an entry for /home to the UUID, like so:
Code:
jason@Area51:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sdd2 during installation
UUID=0fdcafa9-dd84-492c-b3c1-3095fafd1b99 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sdd1 during installation
UUID=b6384b13-fc82-48e7-8e89-e78db297f56a none swap sw 0 0
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
# RAIDED HOME DIRECTORY OVER MDADM SOFTWARE RAID
UUID=43468e30-1c93-4a10-8a6c-fd9622cfba36 /home ext4 defaults 0 2
jason@Area51:~$
That's my exact /etc/fstab. I edited it manually, but there's a GUI utility in the Software Center that should take care of this as well. Once edited, reboot, and your home directory should be on the array. It was evident to me it worked fine when, of course my data was there, but also my beloved Pink Floyd wallpaper was back.
