Chris wrote:
> Which is the best way to experiment with different distros, Multiboot or
> VMWare?
That probably depends on what you are doing with your various
distributions. Are you playing games? If so,
VMWare probably isn't the
best solution.
VMWare is extremely useful if you are doing things like
software or web development, and you need to test your applications on
various platforms and/or different browsers. If you are just
"experimenting" to see which distro(s) you like, and you do not already
own
VMWare, it is a rather expensive way (about US$200) to test them
out. A
multiboot system will give you a better idea of how the various
distros run natively, and is probably a better solution unless you need
to test things out on multiple platforms concurrently. On the plus side
for
VMWare, you can set up a virtual machine with a 30Gb virtual disk,
and it will only "take" the space that it needs from the host, meaning
that the majority of that 30Gb is still available to use on the host
machine until the virtual machine grows into it. You don't really have
that luxury in a
multiboot environment - if you create a 30gb partition
to install a distro, even if that distro only installs into 2gb of that
space, you can't do anything else with that wasted space.
If you are considering purchasing
vmware, in my experience running a
Windows virtual machine (guest) on a
Linux host is smoother than the
other way around.
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