Norm wrote:
<a windows 7 rant>
Agreed! With bells on!
> My advice to Dilwyn is simple, if you ever want to stop effing about
> with Windows and having to rebuild your PC from the bits that
> survived a
> heave out of the nearest (open I hope) window, install Linux. I
> thoroughly advice Linux Mint 11 as it still uses Gnome 2.
> Ubuntu - much
> favoured by many - has gone over to Gnome 3 which is bloody awful.
> (Other opinions are available - but they are wrong!)
You can switch Ubuntu back to ye olde view at the login screen, I've done
that on my boxen and all appears well.
>
> Linux Mint 11 have everything you need to listen to music, watch DVDs
> etc. And run QPC. However, there are two things I've found it
> can't do:
>
> * Access floppy discs from within QPC. A tad irritating I
> admit, but as
> I don't have a floppy on my laptop, not too big a problem!
>
> * Play Blue Ray DVDs. Apparently the encryption used on these (to
> prevent you playing something you own when you go away for a
> few nights,
> for example) is such that bypassing it is a tad (a) difficult and (b)
> set's you up to be prosecuted.
If your machine is powerful enough, you should be able to run a Windows
virtual machine inside your Linux box; I don't know whether that would give
you floppy access or not, or indeed bluray playing abilities; but it might
be a solution to the problem at hand (ironic: having to run an emulator in
an "emulator"). VirtualBox is a freely downloadable VM system
("apt-get"table), also VMWare's VM Player is free for non-commercial use.
Natch, you need an old XP licence (or a Win 7 Pro licence, which allows you
to "downgrade" to XP).
Cheers,
Ade.
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