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wodin · 05-09-2009, 01:21 PM

After being soundly spanked by Columbus and others, I spent an evening, that could have been better used by reading, installing Ubuntu in a VirtualBox.

My experience so far:

The first thing it wanted to do was download 65 patches and updates. Where have I seen THAT before?
My printer doesn’t work. That includes the scanner/digital sender function.
The best resolution I can get it to give me is 600X800X8bits
Most of my mouse functions don’t work. With 600X800 resolution, the scroll wheel would REALLY be nice.
Open Office ain’t as good as MS Office 2007. But I already knew that ‘cause I have both loaded in Vista.

That was playing with it for only a couple of hours, I’m pretty sure I’ll find more issues before I get bored and move on to Windows 7.

05-09-2009, 01:21 PM	#93
wodin Illiterate Posts: 10,279 Karma: 37848716 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: The Sandwich Isles Device: Samsung Galaxy S10+, Microsoft Surface Pro	After being soundly spanked by Columbus and others, I spent an evening, that could have been better used by reading, installing Ubuntu in a VirtualBox. My experience so far: The first thing it wanted to do was download 65 patches and updates. Where have I seen THAT before? My printer doesn’t work. That includes the scanner/digital sender function. The best resolution I can get it to give me is 600X800X8bits Most of my mouse functions don’t work. With 600X800 resolution, the scroll wheel would REALLY be nice. Open Office ain’t as good as MS Office 2007. But I already knew that ‘cause I have both loaded in Vista. That was playing with it for only a couple of hours, I’m pretty sure I’ll find more issues before I get bored and move on to Windows 7.