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Originally Posted by +Kardboard+
You need to get unrar and rar in Synaptic.
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I've tried, it won't let me select it for download. wierd thing. eventually I just gave up, copied it to the Vista part. flipped to Vista, unpacked it, and flipped back.
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Originally Posted by MegaHurtz
If you are just getting into it, the best way to do it IMO instead of dual booting is to use VMWare. You can just switch back and forth between Windows and your Linux distro if you need to do anything.
As far as distros go, Ubuntu seems to be one of the most popular. I've got it installed on a VM here on my laptop, and most of the Windows admins that I know who tinker with Linux use Ubuntu as well.
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haha too late, I considered a VM but then I figured by the time I get everything all nice and setup and want to put it on my computer, I'll have to start over again, plus I wouldn't be able to see if there's any performance benefits over Windows. I know I'll always need Windows in some form or another so I'm sticking to the partitions. Ubuntu happened to have all the drivers I needed so I went with it, I think it was Mandriva that wouldn't even boot from the Live CD and Fedora looked exactly like Ubuntu except blue not orange, and without all my drivers.