Windows, that's a step too far

Re:Windows, that's a step too far by jnbiche on Friday June 08, 2012 @04:54PM (#4086117)

Forget running Photoshop on Wine, or dual-booting. Run Windows XP within Virtualbox on Linux, and set it to "Seamless" mode. XP is lightweight and runs well on Virtualbox, although you may want to use the 64-bit version of XP if you'll be doing a lot of work with Photoshop. And under Seamless mode, it's almost as Windows apps are running natively on Ubuntu (or whatever Linux distro). I've not run Photoshop on Virtualbox (although I know others do successfully), but I regularly run a number of relatively complex Windows applications (such as Office) in this manner as part of my job. And it works so much better for me than Wine, or dual booting.

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Re:Windows, that's a step too far by oliwarner on Friday June 08, 2012 @07:12PM (#4086565)

Completely agree. If you're in Ubuntu and need to get work done in a Windows app, do it in XP on VirtualBox. It's the right way.

Nlite your XP install down so it's "wather thin" for extra credit. I can be in Ubuntu one second, load up my VBox image and three seconds later I'm sitting at a usable XP desktop. Photoshop (et al) are fast but most importantly they're reliable and stable.

Wine does work for some things (games mostly) but you lose any sort of guaranteed reliability.

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Re:Windows, that's a step too far by jnbiche on Friday June 08, 2012 @10:20PM (#4086961)

Yeah, I've actually got an Nlite-ed copy of XP I've burned that I could use, and I almost pulled it out when I first installed XP on VirtualBox, but I've been so happy with vanilla XP on Virtualbox on Linux Mint that I've not felt the need to dig it out. But if you have less than 4 GB of RAM or so, and you plan to run something like Photoshop on XP via Virtualbox on a Linux host, it would probably be a good idea to use Nlite.

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Re:Windows, that's a step too far by peterwiese on Friday June 08, 2012 @07:40PM (#4086650)

Why not win7?

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Re:Windows, that's a step too far by oliwarner on Tuesday June 12, 2012 @07:21AM (#4099858)

Two reasons: I don't own a license for it and based on my preview testing, I don't need it.

I don't boot an instance of Windows for the Windows experience, I'm doing it so I can load another application so I can get things done.

Plus XP's Minesweeper and Sol are much better... For much the same reasons.

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Re:Windows, that's a step too far by swalkergibson on Friday June 08, 2012 @05:54PM (#4086349)

I run Photoshop on a VBox on my Ubuntu laptop and it works perfectly.

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