Comments on: That Expensive Microsoft Experience http://sphaerula.com/wordpress/computing/that-expensive-microsoft-experience/ by Conrad Halling Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:37:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tom http://sphaerula.com/wordpress/computing/that-expensive-microsoft-experience/comment-page-1/#comment-229 Tom Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:33:10 +0000 http://sphaerula.com/wordpress/?p=154#comment-229 A third operating system perspective - I built a new machine over the Thanksgiving holiday & installed Kubuntu Linux. I'd say the install took about 10 minutes from the CD, and once installed, web updates took perhaps another 5 minutes. I installed VMware player and loaded a WinXPpro image created in VMWare for Windows, updated VMtools. My goal for this machine was to do most work in Linux, with the option of running Excel and a few other apps in Windows, and thus far it has worked out well. A third operating system perspective – I built a new machine over the Thanksgiving holiday & installed Kubuntu Linux. I’d say the install took about 10 minutes from the CD, and once installed, web updates took perhaps another 5 minutes. I installed VMware player and loaded a WinXPpro image created in VMWare for Windows, updated VMtools.

My goal for this machine was to do most work in Linux, with the option of running Excel and a few other apps in Windows, and thus far it has worked out well.

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