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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 20/09/12 10:06, Onno Benschop wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 7 September 2012 12:45, Brad Campbell
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Sometimes I wonder why I stick with Linux....<br>
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Hi Brad, just came back from some technology free leave and I
saw the subject of your email among the deluge.<br>
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<div>I've removed your tale of woe, since it mirrors mine -
albeit different hardware and software combinations. I came to
the same exclamation as you did and then I went sideways to go
forwards. I love Linux, it gives me stuff that I now take for
granted, tools that make me more productive, the ability to
fix stuff at a low level if I have the need, but sometimes I
used to spend more time fixing my desktop than I did earning
money.</div>
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<div>I'll preface this with, "This may not be a solution for
everyone, but for me it has changed my life."</div>
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<div>In brief, I run Ubuntu inside a VMware Fusion container on
a MacBook Pro 17".</div>
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I can see the value in that. I run quite a few KVM based VM's
depending on what I'm doing. When I upgraded my old 2006 Mac Mini to
the iMac I passed the Mini on to my mother. She had been running an
XP laptop for years, so I migrated her XP install across to the mini
in a Virtualbox VM. As she gets used to the Mac her usage pattern
moves from virtualised to native. Eventually the only thing she'll
need the XP VM for is MYOB.<br>
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I have clients that specify precise versions of office, so I have XP
VM's with office 2003, 2007 & 2010. I run up the VM in the
background and rdesktop into it. This gives me cut and paste without
worrying about special guest extensions. I do the same thing for
Autocad, Google sketchup and various bits of software required to
configure/use some of the hardware I test as part of my day job. It
also means I can move the VM between my desktop and laptop and the
only thing that changes is the screen size.<br>
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I have thought about using OSX as my primary desktop OS. I know lots
of people do and are very happy with it. As I get older I seem to be
less interested in having to do the work to make stuff usable rather
than just using it, so at some point I'll get sick of having to hack
the kernel and userspace and just move to a pre-packaged solution.
Until then I suppose I'll slowly code less and complain more :)<br>
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Regards,<br>
Brad<br>
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