Hi :) Virtualisation is good but if it's a question of drivers for a particular piece of hardware then it might not work. It might, but it if the underlaying OS can't see it then i don't see how the virtual machine that is sitting on top of that OS is supposed to see it.
It is possible to use emulators or even better is WINE (stands for "Wine Is Not an Emulator") but that is a lot more sophisticated and hence slightly harder to set-up initially for some programs. The worst way around is to have a Gnu&Linux in a virtual machine on Windows because then the stability of the unix-based systems is sitting on top of the flakiness of Windows so you end-up adding the worst of each OS. A dual-boot means each is directly on bare metal so it gives a fair comparison. Windows inside a virtual machine inside Gnu&Linux sounds like it's going to be ver stable too. Ubuntu and Puppy and possibly a few others have a magic way of installing inside Windows. It avoids 1 of the layers between bare-metal and the OS because it avoids the virtual machine bit. The Ubuntu magic way is called the "Wubi". Again you are adding the worst of each OS and in addition the "drives" are really compressed files but it's fast and easy to install and many people keep using such things for years with no problems. Obviously it's not made by Microsoft and so every once in a while someone has troubles with Windows trying to reject it but that is fairly rare. We used to get about 1 question per month that was specifically about the Wubi and solved by moving to a dual-boot. So, there are tons of different ways of avoiding wiping Windows and that seems to be the best way to make the migration much more gentle and less stressful. Throwing yourself to the lions is the fastest way to learn to deal with lions (or die) but there is no real need to create so much stress. Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 24/7/12, Simon Cropper <simoncrop...@fossworkflowguides.com> wrote: From: Simon Cropper <simoncrop...@fossworkflowguides.com> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Migrating from Windows; take it slow To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Tuesday, 24 July, 2012, 11:05 On 24/07/12 19:36, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 13:41:59 -0400 webmaster-Kracked_P_P > <webmas...@krackedpress.com> wrote: >> Anyone who really wants to learn how to use Linux as a replacement >> for Windows, try dual booting a system if you do not have a spare one >> to try Linux with as its only OS. > > > G'day. > > > The other option for the odd trip back to windows is virtualisation. > Mostly, you can tell the system to let windows use a device as if you > had booted into windows > > Regards > > > Keith Bainbridge > PO Box 324 > BELMONT Vic 3216 Australia > +61 (0)408 522 706 > > keith.bainbridge.3...@gmail.com > Visualization also has the added benefit of a shared clipboard and being able to work on the same data at the same time (well nearly). -- Cheers Simon Simon Cropper - Open Content Creator Free and Open Source Software Workflow Guides ------------------------------------------------------------ Introduction http://www.fossworkflowguides.com GIS Packages http://www.fossworkflowguides.com/gis bash / Python http://www.fossworkflowguides.com/scripting -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
