Windows is a living creature.

Discussion in 'The Lounge' started by Aimee Wilbury, Jun 3, 2009.

  1. Aimee Wilbury

    Aimee Wilbury Staff Sergeant

    I threaten to replace it with Linux and it suddenly starts behaving!!! :-D
     
    Aimee Wilbury, Jun 3, 2009
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  2. Paxton007

    Paxton007 MajorGeek

    Don't you love when things like that happen? Maybe you should find a nice Linux theme and slap it on there, show it where things could end up. LOL
     
    Paxton007, Jun 3, 2009
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  3. hrlow2

    hrlow2 MajorGeek

    Download some programs for Linux just for the threat effect.
     
    hrlow2, Jun 3, 2009
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  4. Mimsy

    Mimsy Superior Imperial Queen of the MG Games Forum

    Absolutely not! That will send the message to Windows that if it looks like Linux, everything will be okay and it won't be replaced. You don't want any form of reassurance, false or not. You want the threat to be real!
     
    Mimsy, Jun 3, 2009
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  5. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    You could just threaten it too many times, like girl who cried wolf and it goes "come on then, replace me" so must be prepared to act on the treats ;)
     
    DavidGP, Jun 4, 2009
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  6. hrlow2

    hrlow2 MajorGeek

    That is the reason I said to have some Linux programs downloaded and saved.
    Not as a threat, but as a promise.
     
    hrlow2, Jun 4, 2009
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  7. Calltaker

    Calltaker MajorGeek

    What kind of treats are those?? I wanna get some. I looooove treats!!

    lol

    Too early in the morning.

    ~C
     
    Calltaker, Jun 4, 2009
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  8. hrlow2

    hrlow2 MajorGeek

    Still love those eyes, Calltaker.
     
    hrlow2, Jun 4, 2009
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  9. Aimee Wilbury

    Aimee Wilbury Staff Sergeant

    I have a few Linux distros downloaded and burned onto CDs. I wave the CD in front of the computer, saying "Behave or I'll pop this in and reboot!" I came as close as opening the CD drive and it suddenly stops doing the annoying thing and behaves.
     
    Aimee Wilbury, Jun 4, 2009
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  10. hrlow2

    hrlow2 MajorGeek

    Just gotta love a responsive machine.
     
    hrlow2, Jun 4, 2009
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  11. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Hi CT

    Mmmmmm lets see choccolate treats :yum

    Have you ever given them a go? even in say a Virtual Machine (VM)? if not they are a great tool for learning about PCs, Drivers and Software, while these days Linux is more polished they used to be a pig to setup are get working OOB, which is why many apart from the real hard core linux geeks stuck with linux and tweaked the hell out of it, and the likes of PCLinuxOS, and the xBuntu's are good to give a whirl, I kinda like the roundedness and OOBE, plus the names of Kubuntu or Ubuntu give their builds.
     
    DavidGP, Jun 4, 2009
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  12. Aimee Wilbury

    Aimee Wilbury Staff Sergeant

    Well, from time to time I pop in a Knoppix disc and muck around with it. And dual-booting I'm having trouble with. Never thought about a VM is there a good recommended one?
     
    Aimee Wilbury, Jun 4, 2009
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  13. Burning_Monkey

    Burning_Monkey MajorGeek

    I have VMWare and I love it. I use it for dev work all the time.
     
    Burning_Monkey, Jun 4, 2009
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  14. mcadam

    mcadam Major Amnesia

    It'll backfire one day, and then just die on you. Then you'll regret it.
     
    mcadam, Jun 5, 2009
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  15. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    I agree with BM, VMWare is good but I also use Microsoft Virtual PC 2007, using MSFT VPC 2007 now, with 5 OSes, Win XP (need legacy OS for troubleshooting), Win 7 32bit, Win Vista 32bit for testing, and Kubuntu 9.04, plus Win Home Server as a test to migrating one PC fully to this soon.

    But while my main desktop does have a Virtual Machine with various OSes I do tend to like to install them all in a clean install preferably (at present have 1 with Vista 32bit, 1 with Vista 64bit, and two with Windows 7 64bit *desktop and laptop*) but this needs multiple PCs which not everyone has access too.
     
    DavidGP, Jun 5, 2009
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  16. Aimee Wilbury

    Aimee Wilbury Staff Sergeant

    Got Ubuntu installed in VirtualBox. No problems except that I keep accidentally taking screenshots.
     
    Aimee Wilbury, Jun 27, 2009
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  17. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Neat on Ubuntu, one of my builds with Kubuntu seems to want to loose the BT connection with my keyboard and mouse!!!


    Hey if you keep taking screenshots, post a random one :)
     
    DavidGP, Jun 27, 2009
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  18. BILLMCC66

    BILLMCC66 Bionic Belgian

    I have Ubuntu installed on VMware and it works perfectly,in fact i am folding with it directly from the VM.
    I would recommend it to anyone.
    I tried MS virtual machine and could not get it to run the way i wanted,that's not to say it's no good just maybe my fault.
     
    BILLMCC66, Jun 27, 2009
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  19. thesmokingun

    thesmokingun MajorGeek

    having virtual box (or vmware or others) is pretty cool to tinker with. I have ubuntu, osx, win me (yeah, i know) , win xp, and even win7 (im running win7 and have a virtual win7 too) , and solaris. gonna start tinkering with other linux distros soon.
     
    thesmokingun, Jun 27, 2009
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  20. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    I think your post hits nail on head TSG, and while we all may have fav OS's its great to "tinker" as you say with others, it for me shows a degree of knowledge in trying alternatives and not being a "fanboy" so to speak with one OS.

    One of the things I do like about many of the MG membership is the ability and thinking to try things out and not pre-judge.
     
    DavidGP, Jun 27, 2009
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  21. Aimee Wilbury

    Aimee Wilbury Staff Sergeant

    Aimee Wilbury, Jun 27, 2009
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  22. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Hi Aimee

    How cool are you, neat on pic :)
     
    DavidGP, Jun 27, 2009
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