02-05-2018, 10:34 AM
Hi!
I too find PCLinuxOS (I used the Xfce version) amazing and the community very enthusiastic and supportive. I'm still a big fan of their monthly magazine, too. But kinda freaked out by whole "rolling release" thing. And like you, I'm no techno-geek.
If you ran WindowsXP in a virtual environment (within Linux Lite, but not with root privileges - kinda like in a sandbox), you wouldn't need a whole 'nother partition for it, and if it was internet-active it couldn't do any harm to your system, because it's "virtual!"
Run Linux Lite in Live mode first, kick the tires, give it a good test drive. If you like it and wanna install it,
1. - Choose "something else" when the installer asks about the partitioning scheme
2. - I would replace PCLOS with Linux Lite, but you don't have to a HDD that size. Especially if you run WinXP in a virtual box.
3. - Linux swap - 1 GB. "/" (root) 20GB. The rest of the drive would be "/home" unless you keep PCLOS. Then just install Linux Lite "alongside" PCLinuxOS, and run WinXP in a virtual environment.
Grub is the bootloader in most Debian and Ubuntu-based distros including Linux Lite. It's easy to manage, the wonderful Ubiquity installer in Linux Lite is super easy to understand.
I too find PCLinuxOS (I used the Xfce version) amazing and the community very enthusiastic and supportive. I'm still a big fan of their monthly magazine, too. But kinda freaked out by whole "rolling release" thing. And like you, I'm no techno-geek.
If you ran WindowsXP in a virtual environment (within Linux Lite, but not with root privileges - kinda like in a sandbox), you wouldn't need a whole 'nother partition for it, and if it was internet-active it couldn't do any harm to your system, because it's "virtual!"
Run Linux Lite in Live mode first, kick the tires, give it a good test drive. If you like it and wanna install it,
1. - Choose "something else" when the installer asks about the partitioning scheme
2. - I would replace PCLOS with Linux Lite, but you don't have to a HDD that size. Especially if you run WinXP in a virtual box.
3. - Linux swap - 1 GB. "/" (root) 20GB. The rest of the drive would be "/home" unless you keep PCLOS. Then just install Linux Lite "alongside" PCLinuxOS, and run WinXP in a virtual environment.
Grub is the bootloader in most Debian and Ubuntu-based distros including Linux Lite. It's easy to manage, the wonderful Ubiquity installer in Linux Lite is super easy to understand.
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