Windows, that's a step too far

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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