So my dad's going to be building a new computer. He doesn't like upgrading because it's a pain to move all his data from computer to computer and if we ever need to reinstall the OS, it's a big pain. So I'll helping him setup multiple partitions on the new system.
I'm trying to convince him to start using Linux more but I think that's going to be a tough sell for a while (he's very resistant, and now I understand what my parents had to deal with when I was younger). So I'm thinking we'll probably put three partitions on the PC.
1. WindowsXP (he still has a legacy program that uses Access and a USB Key)
2. Linux (Ubunutu)
3. Storage (the bulk of the disk)
My only question is which format I should do the storage partition in. FAT (works well with both windows and Linux) or NTFS (still works OK with Linux). Mostly likely he'll spend most of his time in Windows.
Or do I really just try and push him to the Linux system and run Windows with VMWare or something?