A Good Imagination and a Pile of Junk

We’ll see. I’m goin’ in.

Every few months I get a bizarre linux impulse. This time I decided to exhibit an uncharacteristic amount of sense and use Virtual PC.

What Virtual PC does is create a “simulated” computer on your windows computer. On THAT “virtual” computer, you can install a new operating system or whatever. It’s a good technology (though I’ve not used VPC itself before.)

If I take to it well, I’ll probably promote it to the primary os on the box. But we’ll see.

UPDATE: Works like a charm. The only problem I’m having is that because the devices are virtualized, ubuntu can’t auto-detect them and respond accordingly. Therefore, the display settings are stuck at 800×600, there’s no mouse wheel support by default. I’ve no doubt these are easily surmountable, but it’s sorta annoying in the meantime.

(I know I know “blah blah blah windows blah computer blah blah fucking dweeb yadda yadda”)

UPDATE: REMEMBER THIS? “I’ve no doubt these are easily surmountable.” It’s not true. Manually editing xorg.conf and boot loaders to override and fudge in sync refresh rates and resolutions is NOT ok. This is the EXACT SAME SHIT that was a problem with linux 15 years ago. Fuck you Linux, after all this time, you still suck.

*deleting*

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