On Sep 27, 6:06 am, Yuval Levy <[email protected]> wrote:
> Windows is a pain because of the lack of package manager. You should really > give Kubuntu a try. There is, of course, a learning curve, but I think you'll > be delighted. Actually I'm runing a double boot system with Windows XP SP3 and Ubuntu studio 9.x. on a Thinkpad. But it's a handcrafted setup where the Windows System partition is encrypted with Truecrypt and the whole show is still booted with grub legacy using some dirty tricks copying specific sectors to and fro. I just daren't update it because last time I had a double boot system like that, upgrading linux just totally f....d up my setup, resulting in me having to repartition, restore... it took days of work. Ubuntu now uses grub 2, I haven't the faintest clue if it will respect my setup, let alone understand that it mustn't touch anything after, I think, the 8th sector of the disk, let alone install grub 2 over it. I have toyed with installing Ubuntu 10.4 into my (encrypted) Windows partition and play with it a bit, but I still haven't done it, because I'm still annoyed with Ubuntu for wrecking another double-boot-system (also laptop, but no Truecrypt) I tried to upgrade from 9.4 to 9.10 just a couple of weeks ago, and then when I tried to istall 10.4 post-recovery, it went black-screen on me no matter how hard I tried. It's not all so fantastic in the Linux universe, and if you go off the beaten track with an Ubuntu system (like, install bleeding edge software instead of the Canonical- sanctioned versions that come with your distro) you may find yourself in similar situations as a windows user who's got some old version of something that doesn't cooperate with something else. Ah, I'll stop whining and complaining, and, yes, I should do more on Linux, it'd be so much more my style - but I'm only human and my Windows system is running so smoothly I can't get myself to invest a couple of weeks to recreate my software environment in Linux. And now I even have hugin 2010.2.0, and it works well so far! with regards KFJ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Hugin and other free panoramic software" group. A list of frequently asked questions is available at: http://wiki.panotools.org/Hugin_FAQ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/hugin-ptx
