Number 3, support. No where to go for help. You are bound to come in to promise whenever doing something for the first time find website or communities with experience users of the product that you can reach to for help when you need it example; when I first installed Ubuntu the ex server would not detect my graphical hardware no matter what I did. I went to the Ubuntu forms and I was directed to a program called envi, this is a good program that automatically set up the ex server for me and installed the latest video drivers for my video card. Again, that comes down to community, connect with the community, you know I am really your last line of defense for support. You can come by the chat room and ask people in here and certainly you know, I do my best to direct you, you know which ever direction I can, but chances are if you are looking to trouble shoot issues if it is something simple the chat room might be able to help. If it is something a little more complex, it is probably better off posted in a form and you know, we have got forms on locker Nome, help LockerNome.com. Although those will largely be migrating into the new version of Locker Nome, which we are working on and we were also going to have an official Q&A section in locker Nome as well.
So, I guess my community is going to be able help you or you will be able find any other community on the web that could help you with that. Number 2, have a life line. Data is bound to be lost when installing and uninstalling operating systems. Make sure that all critical data on your current OS backed up and can be restored on your new OS. When in doubt I recommend partitioning the empty portion of your hard drive installed the OS you want and try it out. This way your entire system has not been host and you can revert to what you are using before. Dual booting is also a great option for compatibility, hardware and software, and then he notes his current set up that he is like doing a whole bunch of dual booting. I would recommend though before going down to dual boot ride if you want to try something new. Buy a virtual machine software. You download the demo the virtual machine software, you know VM ware is a sponsor of our broadcast and you can run Linux and VM ware, windows and VM ware you can even run Mac OS Ten server in VM ware.
So, the bottom line is you know protect your self. Make sure you are not just running into these things and yes I am tired of windows I am moving to a Ubuntu or I am tired of OS Ten I am moving to windows, it do not matter, I mean just do not go blindly, make you will be ready for it. I mean, one of the reason it took me well all over a year to make the transition between, you know living large inside the windows to large inside of OS Ten for my primary operating system. I surround my self with PC’s and Max and Linux and Windows and OS Ten, but that transition time for me, it was not immediate I mean I had to make sure, I had to be sure, I had to wait for the software to be ready. I had to wait for the hardware to be ready. It was not an overnight thing, anybody who thought that well. 1. was not doing a research. 2. Does not know me a darn bit, because I take dirty calculated risks and otherwise, I would just be kind a lost be going I do not know what is going on. I have been reacting to just about just any issue that ran into. At least I had time to adjust so; allow yourself an amount of time. Allow your self a way to escape.
Number 1, can the OS do what you want it to do? A key point for Linux is the eye candy. It is great, we love it and that is why a lot of people would not use it over windows or OS Ten and I think he is talking specifically about compass fusion. Anything beyond that, I do not know if I would say Linux is high on the eye candy, but this is not always practical if a program you need for school or your work is only available on windows and you are running pure OS Ten or Linux machine. You need to find either comparable application run a virtual machine or reinstall windows. This is another reason why I strongly recommend knock and finding yourself to only operating system. Different operating systems are good for different things. Take advance of this and use it as your disposal.
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