> Well in cases like this I suggest people to switch to Windows or MacOS. > In other words, people demand too much without contributing anything. > A.S.
I cannot recommend Windows to anyone who doesn't have a specific need for it. People who have not used Windows for a while can balk at the changes they have made since XP, and often less so at the differences to an Ubuntu (10.04) or Debian Installation ... especially if you change the theme to WIndows XP (which I've only done once). If the PC came with a License for Windows, I have no qualms about installing VirtualBox using that License within the Linux shell, but as a core OS I don't recommend. I help people install Windows, but I always recommend something else, and we've converted about 7 people in our Laboratories home PC's to Ubuntu. There are applications that only exist in the Windows world, video editing software just isn't as good on Linux (don't talk to me about Rendering farms, we're talking front end), iTunes only works on Windows (but works fine in VirtualBox), a good proportion of games only work in Windows (although Wine is supporting a good number nowadays) ... However, I'm not sadistic enough to install Solaris on anyone's home computer, although my colleagues have threatened that I will to certain people if they come in again. I run it on my work laptop, it takes about 8 times the resources to do (almost) the same work, and boots exceptionally slowly ... but, for some reason I can't fathom, I still love it ... _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
