Favorite OS?

[Mhurron]

Re: Favorite OS?

Unless you need 3d acceleration, VMware Server is free.

[hongman]

Re: Favorite OS?

Box i had at the time would never of run VMware to a useable level.

Maybe one day Ill get back to Linux....itsm certainly useful to know. Again, problem is (or just me? Oo) if I dont use something on a daily basis, id forget it in a matter of weeks.

[Feba]

Re: Favorite OS?

If it's your home computer, I'd like to know why you *wouldn't* use it. Although I do agree- I'm impressed by how much I've forgotten about Windows in the past three or so months. Wouldn't be a problem if I had a job working with them I'm sure, but since I only really use my PC, I've forgotten so much. Happened with FFXI, too.

Out of curiosity, what were these apps you needed to run?

[Mhurron]

Re: Favorite OS?

Box i had at the time would never of run VMware to a useable level.
Maybe one day Ill get back to Linux....itsm certainly useful to know. Again, problem is (or just me? Oo) if I dont use something on a daily basis, id forget it in a matter of weeks.

I've run VMware on a P3 with 768MB ram. Granted the guest was a Slackware VM created to use 256MB ram and didn't run X, but the host ran KDE 3 and was still a useable desktop while the VM was doing it's thing.

Personally, I have multiple machines and still run VMware.

[Feba]

Re: Favorite OS?

Wait, what would you be doing on a machine without X that would require 256MB?

Although my PC is still on 512MB. P4... at least I managed to get something better than the old MX440

[Mhurron]

Re: Favorite OS?

Building packages.

[Feba]

Re: Favorite OS?

Ah

[hongman]

Re: Favorite OS?

Mhurron oh great wise one - I do love the way you know absolutely jack about what I run and what I deem "acceptable" performance, given the vast amounts of variables involved in this to say "Well I run it blah blah blah".

Did you know the specs of my old machine? No.

Do I even remember the specs of my old machine? Hell no! I am pretty sure it ran along the lines of P3 512.....I think. Given that might run Vmware fine, but you also dont know what apps I intend to RUN within/alongside VMware.

Feba:

1. Laziness - hey, at least Im honest.
2. These apps you wont have heard of, Im sure - they were programmed especially for a handful of our clients. Its called TradeCapture, which itself hosts lots of smaller plugin type apps.

I appreciate you guys are trying to help by suggesting ways round - but in all honesty, there is no point becuase of point 1, and also why would i go around all these workarounds just to create more potential problems/places for problems to happen?

Sad fact is, Windows XP is doing its job fine for me (I hate you for making me defend M$), so add to the fact that I feel little need other than personal interest to get back into Linux, and you will see where I am at now.

[Mhurron]

Re: Favorite OS?

Point out where I said it was definitely going to work for you.

Don't worry, I'll wait.

[hongman]

Re: Favorite OS?

Point out where I said YOU said it was going to work for me.

Dont worry, I'll wait too.

[Mhurron]

Re: Favorite OS?

Oh see, and here I thought your little outburst was because you got pissed when I said I ran it on lower speced machines it must work for you. Wait, thats because you did.

I don't care what your machine is. I really don't, I never have and I never will. You gave a broad statement that you didn't think would run it, I said I had a lower speced machine then most would try to run VMware on but for my use there were a lot of things I didn't need turned on. There is sort of an implied YMMV there.

Do you fly down the throat of everyone who gives their experiences?

[Feba]

Re: Favorite OS?

....fight! fight! fight! fight!


hey everyone, something's going down between Mhurron and hongman! Come watch!

[hongman]

Re: Favorite OS?

Ok first off - wtf is YMMV?

And second. Maybe I came across a lil strong, but sadly, this is type of crap is what is becoming more common on these forums.

I dont know you from Adam, nor can I tell your tone. But you came across to me when you said you ran it on a lower spec machine to mean "Well if I done it, then you could of on your old setup." type thing.

Ok, seems a bit unreasonable, but the recent culture here is led me to lean on the side of certain people being malicious rather than not, in the case where Im not 100% sure.

EDIT: and its not everyone, a more accurate statement would be people I get the impression enjoy shit swapping banter like this. Sadly, you made it on the list.

[Feba]

Re: Favorite OS?

I was tempted to call "Catfight!", but Mhurron is a dog.

[Firaeon]

Re: Favorite OS?

I voted Linux. I use Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn 90% of the time I'm using a computer. It's flexible, it doesn't limit me, and I can do most things I want with it, with less problems than that Windows crap. You know, before I used Linux, I had nothing to compare Windows to. Now, I cannot stand Windows. It gives me problems. It's a pain in the ass. I mean, the first time I've used it for a while, was when I went to install FFXI. It took me 2 god damned days to get it to work, because Windows had some files messed up, the video card was all screwed up. I had to call SE twice to help me with it. I bet if they released a client of FFXI to Linux, it would have little to no problems with people who knew what they were doing. Windows is just buggy. Piece of shit to say the least. And Vista? Who cares? It's like the same thing as XP, only now you have eye-candy that hogs up a shitload of your system resources, an annoying security feature that, when disabled, just brings you back to the equivalent of XP security, and some cute little widgets on the side. Oh, and less software/hardware support.

Vista is CRAP.