Vista or Ubuntu...Help me choose...

frozennova said:
Virtual Machines are better than Dual Boot IMO as you dont need to reboot to use your windows apps, and with sun virtual box and the guest additions you can seamlessly integrate your windows os into the ubuntu desktop so it intefers with your work in ubuntu less
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Trouble is your CPU emulates everything in the virtual machine. You can have a nice 5870 gfx card, and the guest OS will still be stuck with an emulated 64mb S3 virge or the like, which isn't even a real card, it's the CPU doing all the work.

You also can't have 64-bit guest OS unless you have a newish CPU with virtualisation extensions.

There are other drawbacks, but those are two I've personally encountered. Oh, and crashes too if you try to use real USB ports with the guest OS :p

Heh, there's a whole host of reasons you'd chose to dual boot over virtualisation.
 
One last thing, and this is a major point.

Do not get into Linux unless you have time to re-learn an operating system. Think how many hours you have spent learning the various nuances of Windows. Then image having to spend that time re-learning the way Linux does things, which is totally different.

You will encounter problems with Linux. They are not all quick and easy to solve. You will need to use command line tools and edit config files. Everything in linux is controlled via text files, and you get to edit a whole bunch of them to have a useful sytem :p

Windows is focused on getting things done with as little technical knowledge as possible.

Linux is focused on people who want to take time out to learn things about a computer and its OS.

It might sound like I don't like Linux - this isn't true. But it's not a Windows replacement for people who just want to get things done with no messing.

And the Linux pushers - they're like Apple fans :p Thou shalt have no other gods but Torvalds :p
 
I use my windows machine for games with it dual booting into ubuntu for everything else, my work laptop is ubuntu only and I have it getting my mails and contacts and calendar from the MS exchange server all good.
On a note about MSN and photoshop, the default IM in 9.10 is Empathy but its MSN support stops at file transfer so I would install pidgin. when it comes to photoshop I would say get to know the GIMP is very powerfull and then if you like vectors install inkscape.
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kkelly said:
How is iPhone 3.0 support now ? Last time I tried it, it bricked my phone :(
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Are you talking about iPhone in Linux? Or in a windows virtual machine?

If your talking about virtualbox I've had a 2G iPhone on 3.0 and a 3GS on 3.1.2 they both work and sync with no problems in iTunes on a xp virtual machine.

In Linux however they just appear as cameras and I can only see my pictures, and again no problems over all the years.

How or what bricked your iphone?

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I found this article a while back that solved a problem with some USB devices in virtualbox on my laptop, if anyone else is having problems, this may help. Don't know why but it was only on my laptop I had to do this.

http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Fix-VirtualBox-USB-Support-111715.shtml
 
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Superewza said:
I prefer Pidgin to be honest, but it's personal taste. If it doesn't have to be Photoshop then GIMP, Paint.net or SumoPaint are good alternatives.
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Pidgin stores passwords in plain text.

But I like Linux a lot better than Windows. I've just picked Windows because it is a lot better at gaming, although, I normally have a dual boot of Ubuntu and Windows.
 
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