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Or just stick with XP

I installed Ubuntu as a VMWare Workstation 6 guest under XP. Install was easy. Fonts looked like cr@p. Had to do some research, open a terminal session, enter some arcane commands to install new fonts, to include MS fonts. Fonts still looked like cr@p. Learned I should probably install VMWare tools. Had to do more research. Unpack some files to /tmp/. Issue more arcane commands to download and install some prerequiste stuff. Issue more arcane commands to get the VMWare tools to install. Got well into install and got some obscure error message at which point everything stopped. Yeah, 90 minutes spent trying and failing to install VMWare tools. Let me tell you how the VMWare Tools install went running XP or Vista in a VM: double-click setup.exe and followed the prompts. Vista, as much as I hate it so far, at least made this much easy.

My point is that there's no need to switch to Vista OR Linux if you can stay with XP. But, when eventually forced to switch (buying a new PC), I still cannot see how the barely Windows-literate people will EVER handle Ubuntu. As soon as you ask these folks to open a terminal window and type things like "sudo", forget it.... Now, considering a Mac, I can easily understand.

Posted by: bmgoodman   Posted on: 08/08/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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