My new system will be here in a week or so and as It will be running FSX, Xplane 10 and Prerar3d, all on their own drives, I'm a bit reticent about buying 3 copies of win 7 Pro as dedicated Os's. Yes, I'm a Flight Sim tragic. I have had no experience with Linux systems, to date but I'm considering running XPlane 10 from 1 128 gb SSD using Linux. Firstly, I'm wondering if 128 gb will be sufficient at the end of the day as I intend to develop it with much add-on scenery etc. The second question, is which Linux OS to purchase? I'll throw in a third question: How steep is the learning curve with Linux and will it be a better choice than win7 for XPlane? (sorry, that's 4)

 

Jon

Welcome Jon. How about:

 

http://www.ubuntu.com/

 

I'm happy with it or have a look at:

 

http://distrowatch.com/

 

There are definitely new things to learn. Many years ago I had a Suse handbook but simply asking in the forum below might be sufficient for you:

 

http://ubuntuforums.org/forum.php

 

I hardly reboot Windows anymore...that says it all doesn't it? But it took me a while to get there... You might feel unconfortable at times now but this changes

after a while. :wub:

128GB should be enough. I've partitioned my 2 HDs into several 250GB slices and boot all 3 main OS from those.

Cheers

Michael

 

 

I'm a bit reticent about buying 3 copies of win 7 Pro as dedicated Os's

 

1: You only need one copy of  windows 7,

FSX Xplane and P3D can be installed each to their own drive or all on the same drive along with  W7, the Licence is locked to the PC not to individual drives, why would you think you will need 3 ?

 

2: Linux does not need to be purchased, just download whatever distro you like the look of, I prefer Slackware

why would you think you will need 3 ?

I run FS9 and 10 from the same boot drive so I'm aware I don't need a drive per program but I think I'll do it anyway. My existing computer is quite adequate for everyday use and will remain the system I use for surfing, forums and general personal business. The new system is probably my last build and will be quite powerful but FS dedicated.

 

Specs:

Intel CORE i7 3970X/3.50GHz

Asus P9X79-PRO,Socket 2011

Thermaltake Tough Power XT 875W PSU

ASUS GTX TITAN PCI-E 3.0 6GB

Corsair 16GB (4x4GB) 

Cooler Master RC-1200-KKN1 COSMOS II Ultra Tower

Corsair Cooling Hydro Series H100i Liquid CPU Cooler

Pioneer BDR-208EBK 12X Blu-Ray Writer

 

Crucial RealSSD C400 128G SATA3 x3

 

Nothing is set in stone but that's what I've ordered. 128 gig is not very big and they're all going to have lots of other add-ons, so that's the plan. Frankly, I have not sorted my thinking out on this config and it could change to a central boot ssd so all programs can be accessed from it but each will have its own Veloceraptor, maybe. Not sure yet.

 

Jon

Welcome Jon. How about:

 

http://www.ubuntu.com/

 

I'm happy with it or have a look at:

 

http://distrowatch.com/

 

There are definitely new things to learn. Many years ago I had a Suse handbook but simply asking in the forum below might be sufficient for you:

 

http://ubuntuforums.org/forum.php

 

I hardly reboot Windows anymore...that says it all doesn't it? But it took me a while to get there... You might feel unconfortable at times now but this changes

after a while. :wub:

128GB should be enough. I've partitioned my 2 HDs into several 250GB slices and boot all 3 main OS from those.

Cheers

Michael

Ubuntu looks the goods. I have not looked at it yet but I'll be putting the iso on a dvd tomorrow. Thanks for the reply.

 

Jon

I boot with Grub (comes with Linux) Win8 dev prev, Vista, OSX86, Ubuntu 32 and 64bit. But I've for each a 250GB partition so 128GB is not much. However the Titan is way cool...