Well, the main reason I was thinking of Lindows was for the familiarity that my wife and daughter would have because of the 'windows' look. But the more I think of it, my daughters games wouldn't run on it anyway. I bought Mandrake 8.1 at Wal Mart some time ago and installed it on my laptop. (I bought it because I didn't have a cd burner at the time and needed the cd's.) My laptop wasn't completely compatible so I ended up taking it back off and reinstalling the restore disks, which is Win 98. On my desktop I upgraded to XP home edition, but I still have problems with lockups and such, and every time I turn around it wants to send MS a report of some sort. I don't like that one bit.
JustDave, maybe you could give me a little insight on running dual OS. On my desktop I have XP home. I used Partition Magic and have extra partitions, and I also am using the Boot Magic. What I want to do is install the Mandrake 8.1, but when I read the install instructions it says something to the effect that the install will partition my hard drive for me? Isn't there a way to install it without doing this, since I already have partitions made up? Or did I miss something in the manual?
