On 02/04/12 21:19, Victor Churchill wrote:
Questions are: 1. given I have Windows installed on the HDD but not on CD, can I look at setting up a VM arrangement whereby I could run a Linux system but bring up Windows if wanted in a VM?
VirtualBox or VMWare will do this for you; I use the former.
2. Have any other disenchanted Ubuntu users settled on an alternative system that suits them? I have the feeling that there are a lot of 'traditionalist'(*) Ubuntu users among the LUG and similar communities who do not really agree with the recent direction Ubuntu has taken. I am wondering about Mint , or Cinnamon ... other suggestions? How hard would it be to go to hard core Debian? I think I am sufficiently apt-habituated that going to a Red Hat style would be a bit strange, but maybe I have to get over that too...
I have been an Ubuntu user since the first public release but have wandered away over the last couple of years. Linux Mint is pretty good, as is Linux Mint Debian Edition, but for the Ubuntu 12.04 release I have gone back to Xubuntu which is now much more polished than it was when I used it a few years ago and offers a sensible interface (IMHO) that I can get on with.
That said I use regular Ubuntu on my netbook and have no issues with it, so go figure! I guess the netbook is used for more casual applications (Web mostly) than the desktop and that is why I tolerate it.
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