Though note that's about Wheezy, and in Jessie there are some noticeable changes, so keep that in mind. Updated at 04:35 AM vincentdante : For Debian this is a good resource for many general concepts: It can be also useful for example when you use / on SSD for fast booting and loading times and place /home on another slower disk.
On the other hand it's more flexible to keep them separate in case you want to transfer /home to anther disk for instance. It also saves data to your home.Īlso, it might be unnecessary to separate / and /home to different partitions (then you don't need to worry about deciding how much space to allocate to each). Steam I believe creates a tree in your user's home directory.Ĭonsider using Play On Linux as a Wine manager.
Reconsider moving some space from /home to / since GOG games install by default on /opt.
Remember to install the proprietary drivers for your video card before playing (hope it's Nvidia!).
If you're interested we can teach you how to do things with the command line (quick and easy).
Use the non admin user for everything, and when you want to add software simply request admin rights. In terms of usage, you'll have to create a non-admin user for yourself and set an admin password. This adds up to approximately 452 GB of disk space, giving you a similar amount of free space you can format as NTFS to share files between your two OSs, install games or whatever. Give it 2 GB or so if you want and have plenty of RAM and don't plan on suspending to disk. The old rule of thumb was twice your RAM but that's ridiculous now. In normal desktop computing you don't need a lot. Linux can use a partition dedicated to virtual memory (swap) instead of a page file. Afterwards reboot with your Linux disc and install it on your second hard drive, but choose a reasonably sized partitioning scheme.įor instance, give /home enough space for your personal files (300 GB?) and / enough for system files and logs (150 GB?). Since you have two hard drives, attach all of them like you normally would and install Win 7 on your main hard drive (don't waste your ssd on that). Download a DVD installer with a desktop environment like KDE or Gnome and you'll be pretty much set. Modern Debian installations are very complete in terms of home usage, and they come with an intuitive graphical installation utility. Now I need to figure out how to adjust the UI for such huge resolution. This laptop I got from work has 3K resolution (2880 x 1620). And then I leave around 1 GiB to swap just in case.Īlso it's good to note that DE selection is now pushed to a later step in the installer process, so if you took the DVD hybrid image (bootable from USB too), you don't select KDE in the beginning in advanced options, but select it later on during the installation. You can make other partitions if you like (separate home for instance and so on, I usually don't). Then should go boot partition (I usually give it 600 MiB EXT4), then root - most of your space (I usually set to XFS). Then it implicitly follows UEFI / GPT path and you don't need to tell it anything extra about UEFI (but I still prefer to create partitions manually - first should be EFI system partition, make it around 260 - 512 MiB FAT32. Debian Jessie installer actually handles UEFI installation just fine (and creates GPT partitions too), that is, if it boots in UEFI mode. OK, I was wrong and things are better than they seemed. Add Neverhood to the list (point ScummVM to its directory). Place the file in the ScummVM daily build directory and you should be set. The actual engine data needed for the Neverhood ScummVM plugin is not present in the daily build. Once you got libpng15.so.15.18.0, symlynk it as `libpng15.so.15` and launch ScummVM with LD_LIBRARY_PATH pointing to the directory where you have that symlink. That's fixable by building it from source which you can get here
I took Debian 64 bit build, but for some reason it relies on libpng15 which is not present in Debian. However, I just discovered that Neverhood support was merged into the master branch of ScummVM some time ago! It's not in the released version yet (1.6.0) but it's available in the daily builds which are made from the master branch. I tried to run Neverhood in Wine recently, and it didn't work, because recent kernels broke Windows 9x applications in Wine.