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Re: Thinking about moving to Linux permanently, should I keep my Windows drive?

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From Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>
Subject Re: Thinking about moving to Linux permanently, should I keep my Windows drive?
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On 2026-05-11, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> On 10/05/2026 18:40, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
>> However, the chances of this are probably small.  Text files, photos,
>> music files... there should be a Linux utility that can handle all of
>> them.  My primary transition was from an Amiga; drives were small in
>> those days, so there was plenty of room to copy that gigabyte of data
>> into a corner of my Linux box.
>> 
> Also RAM. My windows XP VM is a mere 3GB of RAM used.

Luxury!  I give my XP VM 512MB and it does all I need.

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  Re: Thinking about moving to Linux permanently, should I keep my Windows drive? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2026-05-10 19:29 +0200
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