So will the boot drive keep the laptop from being bricked up? I've stayed away from open source os just because I don't want to try and be adventurous and d/l the wrong thing.
you are HIGHLY unlikely to brick your PC ever unless you ae doing a BIOS update which is like ... never and even then many bioes are replaceable (you can even swap out the BIOS on some PCs to a Linux based BIOS ala coreboot)
that said you should try slitaz if you want a neat livecd/usb drive or ubuntu if you have a newer PC and wanna have more stuff to poke around with.... contrary to popular belief if you computer doesn't boot it probably isn't bricked and you can boot any old linux livecd (like slitaz or DSL or puppylinux) and get your precious files right of and later reinstall windows if you want (linux will not do that for you .... although you can boot windows from the linux bootmenu aka Grub aka grand unified bootloader)
you are HIGHLY unlikely to brick your PC ever unless you ae doing a BIOS update which is like ... never and even then many bioes are replaceable (you can even swap out the BIOS on some PCs to a Linux based BIOS ala coreboot)
that said you should try slitaz if you want a neat livecd/usb drive or ubuntu if you have a newer PC and wanna have more stuff to poke around with.... contrary to popular belief if you computer doesn't boot it probably isn't bricked and you can boot any old linux livecd (like slitaz or DSL or puppylinux) and get your precious files right of and later reinstall windows if you want (linux will not do that for you .... although you can boot windows from the linux bootmenu aka Grub aka grand unified bootloader)
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So will the boot drive keep the laptop from being bricked up?
I've stayed away from open source os just because I don't want to try and be adventurous and d/l the wrong thing.
you are HIGHLY unlikely to brick your PC ever unless you ae doing a BIOS update which is like ... never and even then many bioes are replaceable (you can even swap out the BIOS on some PCs to a Linux based BIOS ala coreboot)
that said you should try slitaz if you want a neat livecd/usb drive or ubuntu if you have a newer PC and wanna have more stuff to poke around with.... contrary to popular belief if you computer doesn't boot it probably isn't bricked and you can boot any old linux livecd (like slitaz or DSL or puppylinux) and get your precious files right of and later reinstall windows if you want (linux will not do that for you .... although you can boot windows from the linux bootmenu aka Grub aka grand unified bootloader)
KTHXBYE :-) happy new year engadget!
you are HIGHLY unlikely to brick your PC ever unless you ae doing a BIOS update which is like ... never and even then many bioes are replaceable (you can even swap out the BIOS on some PCs to a Linux based BIOS ala coreboot)
that said you should try slitaz if you want a neat livecd/usb drive or ubuntu if you have a newer PC and wanna have more stuff to poke around with.... contrary to popular belief if you computer doesn't boot it probably isn't bricked and you can boot any old linux livecd (like slitaz or DSL or puppylinux) and get your precious files right of and later reinstall windows if you want (linux will not do that for you .... although you can boot windows from the linux bootmenu aka Grub aka grand unified bootloader)
KTHXBYE :-) happy new year engadget!