dual boot Win 8 and Fedora 17

Mon Dec 3 16:34:42 UTC 2012

On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 04:08:42PM +0000, Ian Malone wrote:

> Don't think it's that off-topic, since a lot of us may have to deal
> with it eventually to get Fedora working.
> 
> FWIW, on a BIOS / NON-UEFI system Win8 + F16 are working okay (Win8
> installed after Fedora and then reinstalled grub2). You also get to
> decide which is worse: Metro or Gnome shell. (Metro in my opinion, and
> the reasons for that probably are completely off-topic.)

This reply is completely of topic!

You can very easily "banish Metro from sight and use".
Just install "http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/" and it's
just as if you are using Win 7.

Alexander