ubuntu 11.04

[kryton9]

I messed up my desktop windows 7 installation last week. I was setting up a VPN server in Windows and trying to access it from my new Android cell phone. I was able to connect, but I didn't see anything on the phone. Anyways to make a long story short, when I deleted the VPN on windows I messed up windows and decided to spend last week goofing around trying out various Linux Distros.

As usual I end up with Ubuntu and 11.04 is really nice. I installed Wine and had 3d acceleration working correctly and ran Oxygen just fine, although the opengl programs didn't run correctly.

I reinstalled windows 7 and decided to try Virtual Box instead of my usual vmware player. It too has improved from the last time I tried it out. I got the Ubuntu Unity interface to work in VirtualBox, which means I got the 3d acceleration working correctly, but I couldn't get the compiz effects to work so far.

Anyways feels good to have a clean windows install and getting back into programming soon.

[JRS]

Backslider!   

You would have been better off fixing what minor issues you had with Wine and stayed with Ubuntu. I wish I switch my desktop long ago and didn't wait so long. 

[kryton9]

If it wasn't for being a PC Gamer as I am John, I would go with Ubuntu full time. Although I think WinXP and Win7 are good OS's compared to previous ones by Microsoft.

[JRS]

I have XP SP3 in a Virtualbox under Ubuntu if I have to use Windows for something. (IE comes to mind ...)

[Charles Pegge]

You can now get Chrome for Linux, John.

Plesk works well with Chrome

But:

SVN still requires IE to log on.

Internet banking security software often requires IE


Charles

[JRS]

It amazes me that major sites (banks, web accounting [QB], ...) require IE. SilverLight is another IE only plug-in that prevents non-Windows users from accessing content. (Win8 previews) I can live with .NET being a Windows only environment for their desktop but when it comes to the web, cross browser capability is a must.