Purpose: Python, PHP, WebKit (hopefully), and pyqt development.
- There is Wubi for Ubuntu, which I am using right now. But Ubuntu 11.04 doesn't work well with my system.
- There is a Wubi like installer for Puppy Linux.
- there is Debian Win32 installer, but I think that does touch the partition table.
My last option is to simply grab Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and hope it works. Would that be a viable solution considering my needs?
What else?
I don't have a beefy system so VirtualBox is out of the question.
gparted
tend to make the process a little difficult to mess up as long as you are careful, and configuring GRUB is really simple nowadays. And if you decide to back out, you can easily resize your NTFS partition over the new one, and Windows has a simple way to reinstall its bootloader over GRUB. Breathes heavily