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I am surprised no-one has added this Gem of reasoning
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What laptops are compatible with Linux?
See Tuxmobil
  
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If you want to try the virtual machine appoach I'd recommend Virtual Box over the other VM's mentioned. In my experience it's easier and it's free in every sense of the word.
If you can though I'd really go the other way, set up a genuine Linux partition, install whichever distribution looks right for you and add Virtualbox to it.
File sharing between virtual and real systems is easier that way. Since 99.9% of all serious Win apps run under VBox pretty well as on a genuine Win system you may well find all you want to retain your Windows setup for is gaming. The only real difference comes with gaming where the system requirements for Direct X are too much for VirtualBox or other VM's.
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This one is a bit overdue, I think.
Why does my wifi work some of the time and not others? and why does getting it to work on Linux sometimes break it in Windows? This is driving me mad!!!
Wireless adapters have issues for lots of reasons, mainly because their manufacturers often offer no Linux support, or actively oppose it.
Most USB dongles need "firmware", which is sometimes copyrighted, so that Linux distributions cannot carry it without permission.
Also, there are often two or three versions of the same dongle, all with different chipsets and firmware, but looking identical.
Most wifi fimware is "cold loaded" into ram on the unit from a location on the hard disk.
e.g. switch on PC, boots up , OS loads firmware.
restart OS, firmware remains active
switch off PC, firmware is lost
This is why when you boot into Windows first, for example, then reboot into Linux, the wifi fails. And Vice versa.
but if you totally power off, and restart, it will work.
Either the firmware is different, or the OS leaves it in a different state to that expected by another OS.
This is an issue with a lot of USB stuff, and strangely, very few people seem to realise it.
It also applies to USB 3G dongles, USB TVcards, someUSB printers and scanners etc.etc
Bluetooth dongles seem to be OK, oddly enough.
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