On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Adam D. Ruppe <destructiona...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Nick Sabalausky wrote: > > Do we know what that switch is for? > --no-warn-search-mismatch > Normally ld will give a warning if it finds an incompatible library > during a library search. This option silences the warning. > > In the DMD changelog, there was a note about making the linker > a little less noisy. I assume that's the reasoning behind the change. > > > Actually I just realized it was Gnome. > > Gnome sucks too! > > (I actually run a mostly custom linux gui. Customly hacked up > window manager, custom theme, custom taskbar, hacked up terminals, > hacked up IM client.... my own linux install is one of the very > few on the planet that doesn't suck ass. It still sucks, mind you, > just not ass anymore.) > > > XP seems to work fine for me in VirtualBox > > Yeah, it's not bad on my comp either, but I always find some > annoying lag as menus pop up and things like that. > > Other benefits of remote desktop though are easier sound and > file/clipboard sharing without installing anything in the guest. > > Whatever floats your boat, but after I tried out the remote > desktop strategy I was very pleased. > I run Arch/Gnome in Virtualbox and get reasonable performance. There's some menu lag, but it's not significant enough to bother me too much. It may just be that my standards are lower :D Virtualbox's guest additions and accelerated video definitely made a difference for me, although apparently they don't yet support enough OpenGL calls to allow Gnome 3's shell to run in a VM.