Hey Logan, Wendell, the team and the Tek Syndicate Community!
Should dual-booting on laptops, tablets and phones become more common in the marketplace?. Also should some of the products come already setup out of the box?
The reason I ask is because I am about to pick up the Acer C720 Chromebook and dual-boot it with Linux. I already have a PC with Windows 7 and Linux so I think I should be fine doing the same on the Chromebook. However, I am not the most technical wiz but I do like to learn and get my hands dirty (so to speak).
For the people who would love to benefit from dual-booting (Best of both Worlds) but do not want to learn how to do it. Is it a good thing to have it done for them or should they learn?
Thanks
Darth Freakazoid
for laptops I think it will with people who know what they are doing and are willing to work on stuff to get it right but most people don't even want to go from XP to 7 much less learn a whole "new interface". For phones and tablets....i would say no, they are designed to work with a specific piece of software and messing with that wouldn't give you the best user results. Whos to say it wouldn't though it may or may not. thoughts are it wouldn't.
Personally, I think that dual boot for mobile devices would be a nice feature but somewhat impractical. For a device like a phone you wouldn't really need more then one OS. I rooted my GS3 to CM10.2 and I don't find myself thinking "man I really wish that I could boot into my old OS". Same idea goes for a tablet I would think. If you were to change to a new OS you wouldn't really ever need to have the option to dual-boot to the old one. The only time I could think of use two OS's would be if you wanted to use iOS and Android on the same device. But seeing how uptight Apple is about their software I can't say that I foresee that taking off. Dual-booting, I think, is best left for the enthusiast who wants to take the time to set it up and also has the ability to appreciate what he\she has accomplished.