3 Days Wasted Trying To Make Linux Work. 1038

I've never understood the attraction of dual boot systems. I've never understood the attraction of important information existing in only one place.

We live in a world with multigigabyte drives selling for $40, and people would still rather risk their existing working system by installing a new OS to a currently booting drive rather than swap in a clean drive to start with.

Yet I hear about such things, quite often.

Advice offered, because I feel like running off at the keyboard. Just use two (or more) machines and a KVM switch, network'em together, allow the linux machine to provide a samba share for your active data, and a seperate hard drive internally for an rsync backup destination. Burn dvds of the data every once in a while and put the disks in a media rated, fire proof safe, then give the finger to the possibility of data loss.

extra-re: in response to chrisv As to responding to trolls, the newsgroups this is posted to are mostly all-troll all-the-time networks. *.advocacy? alt.os.* ??. Posted to comp.lang.c++; yeah, I'd be offended, but in an advocacy or alt. group, seems like a typical fuel saturated, ultra-sweet tasty treat, ready for a bit of flame and troll baiting.