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Originally Posted by Ruskie_it
I'd probably directly use Linux then.  If I am "forced" to be in Windows, I assume I've got to do something with it... If I used a vm I'd be using it to do something in another machine (the host)... It would be too complicated probably. We would need something like wine to run unix command directly on the windows host... oh wait. That's cygwin.  |
My own laptop is Archlinux with the old WinXP partition shoved unceremoniously into a 9GB box/partition. It comes out for Adobe Digital Editions (rare) and that's it... and once MS spins out their newly open-sourced DotNET framework as a cross-platform support library, that may not be necessary anymore.
The school computers will not become linux though. Aafter a brief fling with Ubuntu, the volunteer sysadmin left and the office can just about handle a Windows server. And the chances of me using a VM in there are marginally better than their having a change of heart.
Cygwin is nice. But it is still a pain to manage user installs of calibre and other key apps, I hate and lack comprehension in scripting batch to do useful stuff, windows wget doesn't get trust-server-names, keybindings in cygwin are messed up by default...