Kilon - it would be good if we could percevear to try and get a fix and detailed instructions for other less confident users… At least test Ben’s updated installer so we can clear this.
I appreciate the aggravation you are putting up with. Tim On 28 Aug 2014, at 10:35, kilon alios <[email protected]> wrote: > My work pc is dual boot to ubuntu and win 7 . I am not a fan of linux either, > loads of problems there but nowhere near as bad as windoom. > > I need windoom because of a Greek OCR I use at work to scan legal documents. > I have no choice other than to continue using it. > > I dont care what the corporate world does or the fact that almost 100% of my > fellow lawyers use windoom and some still DOS. Thats their problem :D > > It would be nice to support what 95% of people use out there, but alas I cant > take it anymore. Coding should be fun, Windoom kills my inner child. Sorry > for those that have to tolerate this crap, but I am lucky enough not to . > > /ranting off > > > On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Ben Coman <[email protected]> wrote: > kilon alios wrote: > ok thing get worse and worse > > I try to run pharo as administrator and pharo opens and exits immediately , > it creates a stderr which contains the following > > http://pastebin.com/v9Hpx9pK > > I found the folder you mentioned and I deleted it , now pharo does not open > at all even when run without "run as administrator" > Boy I hate Windoom. I also tried Tim link , nothing, pharo opens but does > nothing, no gui, nothing. I know it opens because i can see its process in > the task manager which i have to terminate manually. > I do all my coding and art on macos, I only have windows at work so i can > test my code on windoom too, but this was the last straw, I had enough with > this uber crappy OS for 17 years now. I am dropping support for it and > sticking to MacOS only. > Thanks guys for your help but it does not worth it. I hope no other windows > user experience my problem. > > > I empathize. I've been a Linux advocate for years, but never made the full > desktop switch since I needed a Windows system for corporate compatibility. > Then I got a mac-mini to experiment with iPad Mobile Device Management, and > found it easier to get Latex working on it than on Windows (for processing > Pillar output), and now I find myself using it for Pharo more every day, and > my Windows box is starting to be neglected (except I still need to migrate my > old Thunderbird email archive). > > However success in the corporate world still hinges a lot on Windows > compatibility. I will still have a go at updating PharoLauncher Installer to > avoid this problem. > cheers, Ben > > P.S. @Tim, Your alternate-VM feature sound interesting. I'll check it out. > >
