I'd say Windows then Linux, without a doubt. Reason is Linux is well
prepared and documented to install after Windows, but the opposite is not
true (yet).

2007/10/1, Dr Skip <drskip@gmail.com>:
>
> VMserver is downloaded (but not installed yet). I expected to see
> something
> about making your own VMs up front, but it was buried in the FAQ. The
> first
> pages all say download and get a packaged VM to run with. But, it should
> work.
>
> Now, are there any comments on whether to install Linux (presumably
> Ubuntu)
> THEN win 2k pro, or win 2k pro first, then Linux? All the machines here
> already
> have windows on them, so Linux on top would be easier, unless there is a
> fundamental reason to do it the other way 'round.
>
> I will say that most of the software I use is Windows (thousands of apps
> it
> looks like) and portable-ized. But not all is... Everything is on NTFS
> compressed and FAT filesystems... Last I looked, NTFS was a problem in
> Linux,
> and Samba stopped a lot. I also found that I couldn't update apps for long
> after the initial distro before it just became less pain to wipe it and
> start
> over. That wouldn't be nice if it was the base OS!
>
> So, windows will be with me for some time, and always running, but is
> there a
> reliability or performance reason to wipe what I have and start with
> Linux?
> BTW, the w2k and xp systems here are reasonably reliable (a month or more
> between reboots). I really have a love for Linux (have used it
> professionally
> in the past) but once you put all your apps on a stick or make them
> copy-able
> without installation, windows isn't too bad (until you get to security and
> vulnerabilities). I also used to have nightmares about keeping libraries
> and
> such in sync and up to date, and some upgrade to run one app in Linux
> always
> left me with a few broken because they didn't like the newer libs...
>
> Thanks,
> Skip
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