OH NO .... I have to use Vista at work

[Tony Alfrey]

Ouattara Oumar Aziz wrote:
> Michael Fakaro a ?crit :
>> I have been using linux on my desktop and Laptop for years, now using
>> Suse 10.2.
>>
>> That is until we got new HP 17" Laptops for work ... nice enough but
>> they all run Vista ... ouch
>>
>> We are not aloud to touch them until the warranties expire in a year
>>
>> SO .........
>>
>> I need some advice

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> 
> 
> he he , You, yourself started to find a solution to your problems :) .
> Install Linux over An external disk (USB disk/key ...) , set up the bios
> to boot on it and there you go, without touching the laptop disk :) 

Why would this not be very slow, especially if the disk is a USB disk?
It would seem to me that this is only practical for a rescue disk, and 
that trying to run applications from a USB disk would be prohibitively 
slow.  No??



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