Comments on: Why I keep thinking about switching back to Windows http://buggy.id.au/2007/12/31/why-i-keep-thinking-about-switching-back-to-windows/ Developer, Manager, Entrepreneur Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:11:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: justtroy http://buggy.id.au/2007/12/31/why-i-keep-thinking-about-switching-back-to-windows/#comment-2434 justtroy Thu, 10 Jan 2008 18:16:38 +0000 http://www.buggy.id.au/2007/12/31/why-i-keep-thinking-about-switching-back-to-windows/#comment-2434 I'm a VMware nut myself. Wine just never got the right video resolution for me. VMware will allow you to start a virtual partition on your drive without even allocating all of the room you tell it to take, and starts a Windows install the minute you start a virtual machine. It reads directly from a mounted CD or ISO mounted as a CD, and installs windows. Very smooth. Without the correct NVIDIA drivers for your computer though, the experience may vary. If you use Acronis for backup with Universal Restore, you can take your virtual machines and start a fresh computer with that same install. I blame NVIDIA for your problems too. I’m a VMware nut myself. Wine just never got the right video resolution for me.

VMware will allow you to start a virtual partition on your drive without even allocating all of the room you tell it to take, and starts a Windows install the minute you start a virtual machine. It reads directly from a mounted CD or ISO mounted as a CD, and installs windows. Very smooth.

Without the correct NVIDIA drivers for your computer though, the experience may vary.

If you use Acronis for backup with Universal Restore, you can take your virtual machines and start a fresh computer with that same install.

I blame NVIDIA for your problems too.

]]> By: Rich http://buggy.id.au/2007/12/31/why-i-keep-thinking-about-switching-back-to-windows/#comment-2433 Rich Mon, 31 Dec 2007 04:06:08 +0000 http://www.buggy.id.au/2007/12/31/why-i-keep-thinking-about-switching-back-to-windows/#comment-2433 @Ycros: I'm currently using the official Nvidia binary drivers but never found the installation particularly easy. With Ubuntu 7.10 I had just about given up all hope of getting them installed properly when I stumbled across Envy which did the job perfectly. Of course now I'll need to repeat the process every time there is a kernel patch which gets back to my list of "annoying" things. For the record, I blame Nvidia not Linux or Ubuntu. @Ycros: I’m currently using the official Nvidia binary drivers but never found the installation particularly easy. With Ubuntu 7.10 I had just about given up all hope of getting them installed properly when I stumbled across Envy which did the job perfectly. Of course now I’ll need to repeat the process every time there is a kernel patch which gets back to my list of “annoying” things.

For the record, I blame Nvidia not Linux or Ubuntu.

]]> By: Ycros http://buggy.id.au/2007/12/31/why-i-keep-thinking-about-switching-back-to-windows/#comment-2432 Ycros Mon, 31 Dec 2007 03:18:12 +0000 http://www.buggy.id.au/2007/12/31/why-i-keep-thinking-about-switching-back-to-windows/#comment-2432 Two things: Have you tried the official Nvidia binary drivers? I've always had very good experiences with them in the past, although only on desktop machines. Needing to test applications using IE: I use the excellent "ies4linux" tool which together with Wine downloads and configures whichever versions of IE you want (all the way from 3 to 7). I find this more useful than Windows, as it can be tricky to run IE 6 and 7 on the one Windows install anyway. Two things:

Have you tried the official Nvidia binary drivers? I’ve always had very good experiences with them in the past, although only on desktop machines.

Needing to test applications using IE: I use the excellent “ies4linux” tool which together with Wine downloads and configures whichever versions of IE you want (all the way from 3 to 7). I find this more useful than Windows, as it can be tricky to run IE 6 and 7 on the one Windows install anyway.

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