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noonehereyet · December 2nd, 2008, 11:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Phases

Like what exactly? (that vista is giving your trouble with) ..just curious.

There's Wine and one other program designed to allow you to run windows apps/games, but they don't work for everything.

You can dual boot, sure. Lots of people do that. I believe foo here does.

Or you can virtualize windows in a virtualbox or vmware environment.. which is what we both do - both at home and at work. Which is great. However, accelerated video doesn't translate through so.. it wouldn't be good for games really or whatever. But for whatever else it'll work.

It's tricky, and will require tweaking and modifying (wink) but you can get other devices (like USB drives) to work in virtual environments as well as the sound to come through, and as I like to do it, a shared folder that's right there on ubuntu's desktop that you map to from within your virtual xp, so you can easy move files back and forth.

Hard for me to nail down and give you just one issue as to why I just don't like it.....It's been a progressive thing for me.... Honestly I was so excited when it came out I got my copy brought it home and went WOW it looks great almost MAC like with the graphics love the new search for programs etc.... you know had that "NEW CAR SMELL" but then the annoying security protocol with the pop up window asking permission every thirty seconds needed to deactivate that with in 5 minutes of my original install or I would have thrown the damn thing out the window...I tried running my staples NERO gone... wouldn't work right until 8.0 so that's kind of fixed, anti-virus waste of time still have conflicts here and there.... firewall that came with it what a joke... and the list goes on and on....If I listed everything that has annoyed me with Vista and continues to annoy me it would be 5 pages long....