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It's recently come up that there's things I can't do on Linux that work on Windows. Windows users don't really get Linux, but simply ask "If you insist on Linux, why don't you dual boot"? It's a terribly difficult question to answer, especially to a Windows-only user. But, I think I may have come up with an analogy that works... Dual booting is like having sex transformation surgery. There are inherit advantages and disadvantages to either sex, but really, someone who is truly comfortable with their current sex just really has no desire to change. You've learned to work with the advantages and disadvantages of who you currently are, and switching is more than just a little obnoxious. Especially if you know you'll want to go back later. Linux, of course, is the male of the species. But, I think I'll stop the analogy there :-) |
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| Wow Posted at Thu Feb 9 16:38:15 2006 by Josiah Ritchie | ||
| Now that's one way to put it! :-)
The two don't work together. Linux has done far more than come Microsoft's way in a compromise, but Microsoft continues to turn a def ear so I choose the OS that is most interested in having a healthy attitude. :-) I don't like working with people who can never admit they are wrong. | ||
| oh my Posted at Fri Feb 10 00:20:47 2006 by nathan | ||
| Well, I had indetended on using "Wow" as my title, but Josiah beat me to it. :) | ||
| Posted at Fri Feb 10 01:57:43 2006 by Eric Andreychek | ||
| Well, the problem I run into is that if I try to tell Microsoft doesnt listen to people, they'd often think "so what, it does what I need". If I tell them it doesn't do everything I want it to, they'd ask what else I wanted, noting all kinds of software that won't run on Linux. Many Windows users wonder why someone would want to use a more complex operating system, than runs less software (that they care about, anyway), that they need someone else to help them with. A lot of folks are surprised at the cost of software available on Linux, as well as the idea that there isn't a rampant virus and spyware problem. So, my goal was to come up with an analogy that for people who don't get Linux.... why would I be willing to jump through hoops to not use Windows? I think my above analogy will prevent further questions, for one reason or another :-) | ||
| Or... Posted at Tue Mar 21 03:56:18 2006 by NaN | ||
| Save yourself the entire headache, and run VMWare (so long as you arn't trying to build a gaming system). My daily driver is a nice dually opteron (w/plenty of cheap ram and disk), running Debian on the bare metal and XP w/office2003/AdobeCS/etcetc under VMWare. I can participate with the other worker bees where I can't put together an alternative solution running purely under Linux. I've experimented with VMWare alternatives to virtualization, and while many of them are doing *very very* well these days, nothing yet beats the simplicity and stability of the above solution. This is where my 'lab' exists as well, running as many linux/windows 'guests' as I need to emulate as much of my network as the current project requires.
No hoops.. no boundaries.. no rebooting..
btw: my machine is *excessive* for most to many tasks. Much less machine will still have your eyebrows glued to the celing in disbelief at the perceived performance *gain* windows has somehow magically aquired under vmware. Just don't be like me (highly abusive) and run everything you can find to run at the same time (hence the monster under my desk). Then go thank someone that I'm not a user on your network.
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| Re: Or... Posted at Tue Mar 21 04:37:03 2006 by Eric Andreychek | ||
| You bring up some excellent points. A lot of folks I know have had excellent luck running Windows based apps not only under vmware, but also under WINE and Cedega. I've mostly used vmware myself, I only use WINE for IE (ugh, yeah, but it's for testing websites :-) But, there do seem to be some excellent solutions available for running Windows apps on Linux. Alas, the issue came up for me when just about the only game I really play, Red Orchestra, turned Windows only. The buddies I had met online just couldn't figure out why I wouldn't be playing by booting into Windows. Sure, some day, it'll run under WINE and/or Cedega, but it takes some time for those to support new apps. Oh, and it sounds like you have a sweet machine :-) Have a good one,-Eric | ||
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