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I have three major reasons why I don't switch to Linux.
1) My Windows machines work, for versions of "work". I don't have a Windows install disc for the laptop, so if something goes afuckered, I can't easily fix that. And all my music is on my desktop! *afeard*
I note that it's likely dirt-easy to fix things. I furtherly note that I am an anxbot the end.
2) I use VB like a madperson. I have compatibility concerns for everything (IE, my Shuffle, &c), but VB and I go way back. I can't give that up. I can barely handle all the keyboard shortcuts being different in OpenOffice, for heaven's sake.
Buuut if OOo has VBA support now... hm.
3) I forget. I think it had something to do with how everything involves knowing arcane command-line things and aiee. However, apparently Ubuntu got wicked easy when I wasn't paying attention. (I can install things easily, and install IE6, and use the Start key, and Ctrl-K gets to the search box, and eee.)
So clearly, the only thing for me to do is acquire a box and install Ubuntu on it, or set up one or the other as a dual-boot things, or suck it up and convert my (poor slow lumbering) desktop to Ubuntu.
Hmmmm.
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Links/notes repository for myself:
* The iPod Shuffle and Linux
* IEs 4 Linux
* gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly for mp3 playingness
* Ctrl-K in Firefox is like Ctrl-E in FF on Windows
* sudo apt-get install [package]
1) My Windows machines work, for versions of "work". I don't have a Windows install disc for the laptop, so if something goes afuckered, I can't easily fix that. And all my music is on my desktop! *afeard*
I note that it's likely dirt-easy to fix things. I furtherly note that I am an anxbot the end.
2) I use VB like a madperson. I have compatibility concerns for everything (IE, my Shuffle, &c), but VB and I go way back. I can't give that up. I can barely handle all the keyboard shortcuts being different in OpenOffice, for heaven's sake.
Buuut if OOo has VBA support now... hm.
3) I forget. I think it had something to do with how everything involves knowing arcane command-line things and aiee. However, apparently Ubuntu got wicked easy when I wasn't paying attention. (I can install things easily, and install IE6, and use the Start key, and Ctrl-K gets to the search box, and eee.)
So clearly, the only thing for me to do is acquire a box and install Ubuntu on it, or set up one or the other as a dual-boot things, or suck it up and convert my (poor slow lumbering) desktop to Ubuntu.
Hmmmm.
--
Links/notes repository for myself:
* The iPod Shuffle and Linux
* IEs 4 Linux
* gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly for mp3 playingness
* Ctrl-K in Firefox is like Ctrl-E in FF on Windows
* sudo apt-get install [package]
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Date: 2008-09-17 11:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-18 05:38 pm (UTC)Question: is there an easy way of converting a hard drive from Windows to Linux without it getting fuckered? Or should I really suck it up and back things up elsewhere first?
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Date: 2008-09-18 08:49 pm (UTC)If you are going to do the dual partition thing, you may not lose everything but I am not really sure -- I haven't done that before. I wouldn't count on it. Back up things anyway.
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Date: 2008-09-18 05:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-18 12:29 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-18 02:26 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-18 06:34 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-18 05:45 pm (UTC)I run it on VMWare machines when I need it for a dev environment. Otherwise, I don't touch it.
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Date: 2008-09-19 03:39 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-09-19 03:16 pm (UTC)