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Survey: Linux/Ubuntu

Well, I figured this would be the best forum for this subject, if not then feel free to move it wherever. Anyway, I'm conducting a very small survey for a college project. I gotta survey at least 30 people about any subject for an essay of some sort. It involves the use of Ubuntu as an alternative OS and stuff like that. Sp I'd like to ask the community for a bit of your time to answer my survey (it's seriously only 2 questions).

Link to survey.

I know Ubuntu is the most casual of all Linux distros, so yeah, please try to answer according to the first distro you used or whatever.

Well, I guess this thread can also serve as a Linux general of some sort.

I'm thinking of installing Ubuntu on my HDD, main reasons are for a few steam games I wanna try on Linux and just for the convenience of it. Do any of you think installing it on an external HDD would affect loading times too much? Or should I just make a partition on my main hard drive? The latter is most likely the best option, but having it on a separate HDD is a bit more convenient to move around computers easier, I'm just a bit paranoid on making a partition on the main hard drive, and obviously running a VM isn't the best idea for running games.
Originally posted by Bad luck man
I'm thinking of installing Ubuntu on my HDD, main reasons are for a few steam games I wanna try on Linux and just for the convenience of it. Do any of you think installing it on an external HDD would affect loading times too much?

That depends on what interface you use. If you use something like USB 3 or eSATA, the transfer rate is almost certainly going to be faster than the seek time of your hard drive would allow anyways unless it's a really high read rate or a solid state, if you use USB 2 then it will add some overhead.

That said, do you not have any more ports for internal drives? When I first installed Arch on my computer I put it on a separate but still internal hard drive, which worked great.

Originally posted by Bad luck man
Or should I just make a partition on my main hard drive? The latter is most likely the best option, but having it on a separate HDD is a bit more convenient to move around computers easier, I'm just a bit paranoid on making a partition on the main hard drive, and obviously running a VM isn't the best idea for running games.

It's really not that much of a risk if you know what you are doing, the hard thing is getting windows to still boot correctly after resizing the partition. As long as you don't move the partition it should be fine. Ubuntu is pretty good at sharing a hard drive during install, but if you are really worried I would boot into a live linux distro and use dd to make a bit for bit disk clone of your hard drive to an external drive if you have the space. Given that you can put your hard drive right back where it was before if something goes wrong.
i liked linux, only tried Puppy and Ubuntu but never got to install any programs. they make it hard with so many different distros and using the shell all the time. they were fast, responsive and came in the box with pretty much all you need in a computer. i like the idea of a free os for the people by the people but i found it too hard to learn and went back to windows.