64-bit Linux as primary OS, multiple Windows VMs is a new thread where I pose a new question. I explain a little more about what I'm doing there.
You have been very kind in educating me in my choices in virtual OS, and I appreciate all your sage advice. This has been one of the best threads I've seen in USENET, and I thank you all! On May 5, 8:14 pm, Ray Parrish <[email protected]> wrote: > LOL! > > Fletcher Bonds wrote: > > > I'm still not a fan of multi-boot though - especially if what your > > solving for is a crash course in Linux. I've seen far too many people > > approach Linux this way professing to want to /learn the OS/, but > > every time something isn't Windows-intuitive to them or momentarily in > > their way.. Windows is only a reboot away and they bail. > > I don't know who those people are you are talking about. I'm a recent > Windows convert, and I am having no problem with Ubuntu Linux, and I > only boot to Windows every three or four weeks now to update it, unless > I need to print something. Lexmark does not provide Linux printer > drivers for my model of printer, so I have to fall back to Windows for > printing only. > > Once I discovered the rotating virtual Desktop cube, and Compiz Fusion, > I was really hooked on Ubuntu! I can get things done much faster in here > because I can move between program so much faster than in Windows with > it's slow video handling, and memory hog applications. > > I have actually found that a very large portion of the keyboard commands > and context menus for editing,are nearly identical, so there isn't much > difference there. The bash shell however, is a vast improvement over the > old batch language of DOS, and can take some learning with it's > different syntax rules conventions, but it's doable with some study of > the man pages and online tutorials. > > Actually I've found Linux to be much easier to learn than Windows, for > the simple fact that I am able to examine even the program source code > for anything within it, to learn how things function. Almost every > program installed in Ubuntu also includes documentation in html format > in the /usr/share/docs/ folder structure, making it very easy to learn > about the different parts of the system and it's software. Even the > Linux kernel itself has installable documentation that covers it's > operation and program code in detail.> IF (big if here) Learning Linux is the > objective. You have to first > > accept as a given that Linux can do everything Windows can (and much > > of better than Windows can) and make the switch. Do a full Linux > > install and make a commitment to hit those Not-the-way-Windows-does-it > > moments and prevail (Google knows all - just ask it). Otherwise > > you'll spend most of your time in Windows with a chunk of your drive > > dedicated to an OS that doesn't often see the light of day. > > I feel differently, for the reason that having more than one operating > system on your computer can be a real life saver. If one of them breaks, > you can use the other to research how to fix it, and sometimes even do > the fixing from the other system, like getting rid of viruses in Windows > from Linux. It keeps the viruses from running so they can not hide > themselves. > > Just make sure that if you install an ext2/3 file system driver in > Windows to be able to read the Linux file system, that you immediately > turn off System Restore in Windows for that drive, to prevent it from > creating a System Volume Information folder on it. Also, do not modify > any of the file types that System Restore monitors, on any drive you > have it set to monitor, from within Linux, or System Restore will > declare all restore points corrupt when it finds the un-monitored changes. > > Later, Ray Parrish > -- > > Human reviewed index of links about the computerhttp://www.rayslinks.com > Poetry from the mind of a > Schizophrenichttp://www.writingsoftheschizophrenic.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
