Thanks, Alf. By that standard I am a greatly accomplished fool, keeping wisemen by the score busy night and day.
On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Alf Haakon Lund <[email protected]>wrote: > Thank you for asking this particular question, as it reminded me to > install virtualbox, which I've been planning for a while. > > I need windows for one, maybe two, programs and as I never bother to > restart just to run them, virtualbox is the solution. > > They say no questions are dumb, but it's also said that the fool may ask > more than ten wise men may answer. Take your pick... > > Al F > > > > > On 18. mai 2013 19:54, Pete Wright wrote: > >> Nobody has asked a dumb/weird question in quite a while, so I guess it is >> up to me again. >> >> As part of some research I am doing (either for the TED talk I will never >> give or the book I will never publish, haven't decided which yet) I want >> to >> play around with some different distros, particularly desktops. >> >> How much are Linux desktops integrated with their distros? Will I get the >> full flavor of each desktop if I just install in whatever Linux I am >> running (currently Ubuntu Studio 13.04 on this machine) or should I put in >> the whole distro for each? >> >> I have a largish (389 gig) windows partition on this machine that has >> become essentially useless (all my data backed up elsewhere, I think, >> please Goddess) so should I just go ahead and try various distros on this >> machine and boot into whichever one I want to use/try at any given time? >> >> I don't even know, for example, what my experience would be like if I put >> Unity, for example, on this distro. What I do know is that everything >> chosen for it seems to work well with it, and I have been reluctant to >> mess >> with it much. >> >> Please don't panic – the book isn't about software; I am not that into >> quicksand stomping! It is about education and various monetization methods >> that might work for education building on an Open Source foundation. But I >> want to encourage newbies and even Luddites to come and play in Linux, so >> I >> need to know what to suggest that won't leave them hating Linux and me >> both. >> >> Onward and Upward! >> >> Pete >> >> >> >> > -- > Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list > Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.**ubuntu.com<[email protected]> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/** > mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-**studio-users<https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users> >
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