I am not back to my work pc, so if you have any ideas how to proceed I am
open to suggestions.


On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 5:17 PM, Tim Mackinnon <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
>
>

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