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A beefy windows workstation or laptop to cover Adobe & DAWs + VMWare for Linux. With fullscreen VMWare and open-vm-tools I can barely notice that it doesn't run

by pampa 9y ago

A beefy windows workstation or laptop to cover Adobe & DAWs + VMWare for Linux. With fullscreen VMWare and open-vm-tools I can barely notice that it doesn't run bare metal, and i can keep different distros at hand for different purposes.

stuntkite 9y ago
I bought Windows 10 Pro last year and had really high hopes for it after the Ubuntu shim was introduced. Windows is a fucking nightmare for anything involving producing audio at a pro level. The Ubuntu shim does not solve what I need even though it's a nice add. The real kicker is that STILL many errors produce a window where I can't even fucking copy the output. Why that is still a feature, I have no idea. That coupled with how they manage fixes/updates and a general distrust for the system being close to secure... It just didn't work out. I wanted to buy that giant drafting table computer with the knob and say fuck it to the MBP. I went to look at it and bought another kinect one day, and what felt like an omen, their windows run point of sale system that tries to hide in the desks like the apple store failed so bad at taking my card that the guy had to use two different work stations and literally was "turning it off and on again" with both his card swiping windows mobile phone and the computers. I feel like my future is in some sort of hand rolled main LXD or CoreOS or the like, that quickly composts whole systems locally and in the cloud but also easily remote desktops to local Mac and Windows machines. I have ideas in my head and a bit in code for a bare bones graphical interface that renders a graph that I can attach arbitrary points to that go to systems, API, terminal instances, containers, etc. I can weight the node connections and also record weight on paths based on frequency of traversal enabling automatic access shortcuts. Of course OSX is close to impossible to run virtualized, which is stupid as hell. Actually if it could without a larger time investment than my full time job that might solve all of my problems. I don't know, I still need all of the systems that are out there... but I think it's time to put a top layer interface on it that gives me them and more. Setting up a springboard for something that doesn't sit around waiting for big providers to bless me with mana from heaven while they wave their dicks in my face. Here's an example of a nerfed version of what I'm talking about as an OS supervisor UI that I'm using for a lesson series on Docker [https://www.dropbox.com/s/be4lh1015y305jr https://www.dropbox.com/s/be4lh1015y305jr]. There is nothing about it that's clean or safe to operate, but I just wanted to prove it. In the current version you can select a node and drop to a terminal inside of a container. Also, I've added support for API nodes auto generated from graphql and REST (if you write the schema). I think it proves the concept. The next step is the pullback to whole systems I guess.
- anonymfus 9y ago
  > The real kicker is that STILL many errors produce a window where I can't even fucking copy the output. Why that is still a feature, I have no idea. BTW a standard way to do it is to just press Ctrl+C in such window without any text selection or context menu. Because such messages could be shown when system has no resources to create context menu or text selection, and that was very important in 16-bit days.
  - stuntkite 9y ago
    I'm sure your right. The fact that they haven't updated that and I've been in *nix/OSX for 8 years now made my frustration point maybe lower than it should have been. Then the next thing I'm doing is trying to use cmd and powershell and my hair falls out. But this is great info and will definitely keep be from cursing quite as much next time I'm MS admining.
  - delinka 9y ago
    Let me klingon to the thread with this: It's 2017 and I still can't use the keyboard to copy and paste from and to a Windows command line window...
    - DanBC 9y ago
      Ctrl C and Ctrl V works in Windows 10 command prompt.
      - stuntkite 9y ago
        Also if you're not quite ready to kill yourself while using the windows command prompt. Enjoy a powershell.
        rpeden 9y ago
        You'd probably enjoy Cmder[1]. Everything works really nicely, it supports multiple tabs, and you can download a version that includes most of the Unix commands you know and love. [1] http://cmder.net/ http://cmder.net/

by pampa 9y ago

stuntkite 9y ago

I bought Windows 10 Pro last year and had really high hopes for it after the Ubuntu shim was introduced. Windows is a fucking nightmare for anything involving producing audio at a pro level. The Ubuntu shim does not solve what I need even though it's a nice add. The real kicker is that STILL many errors produce a window where I can't even fucking copy the output. Why that is still a feature, I have no idea. That coupled with how they manage fixes/updates and a general distrust for the system being close to secure... It just didn't work out. I wanted to buy that giant drafting table computer with the knob and say fuck it to the MBP. I went to look at it and bought another kinect one day, and what felt like an omen, their windows run point of sale system that tries to hide in the desks like the apple store failed so bad at taking my card that the guy had to use two different work stations and literally was "turning it off and on again" with both his card swiping windows mobile phone and the computers. I feel like my future is in some sort of hand rolled main LXD or CoreOS or the like, that quickly composts whole systems locally and in the cloud but also easily remote desktops to local Mac and Windows machines. I have ideas in my head and a bit in code for a bare bones graphical interface that renders a graph that I can attach arbitrary points to that go to systems, API, terminal instances, containers, etc. I can weight the node connections and also record weight on paths based on frequency of traversal enabling automatic access shortcuts. Of course OSX is close to impossible to run virtualized, which is stupid as hell. Actually if it could without a larger time investment than my full time job that might solve all of my problems. I don't know, I still need all of the systems that are out there... but I think it's time to put a top layer interface on it that gives me them and more. Setting up a springboard for something that doesn't sit around waiting for big providers to bless me with mana from heaven while they wave their dicks in my face. Here's an example of a nerfed version of what I'm talking about as an OS supervisor UI that I'm using for a lesson series on Docker [https://www.dropbox.com/s/be4lh1015y305jr https://www.dropbox.com/s/be4lh1015y305jr]. There is nothing about it that's clean or safe to operate, but I just wanted to prove it. In the current version you can select a node and drop to a terminal inside of a container. Also, I've added support for API nodes auto generated from graphql and REST (if you write the schema). I think it proves the concept. The next step is the pullback to whole systems I guess.

anonymfus 9y ago
> The real kicker is that STILL many errors produce a window where I can't even fucking copy the output. Why that is still a feature, I have no idea. BTW a standard way to do it is to just press Ctrl+C in such window without any text selection or context menu. Because such messages could be shown when system has no resources to create context menu or text selection, and that was very important in 16-bit days.
- stuntkite 9y ago
  I'm sure your right. The fact that they haven't updated that and I've been in *nix/OSX for 8 years now made my frustration point maybe lower than it should have been. Then the next thing I'm doing is trying to use cmd and powershell and my hair falls out. But this is great info and will definitely keep be from cursing quite as much next time I'm MS admining.
- delinka 9y ago
  Let me klingon to the thread with this: It's 2017 and I still can't use the keyboard to copy and paste from and to a Windows command line window...
  - DanBC 9y ago
    Ctrl C and Ctrl V works in Windows 10 command prompt.
    - stuntkite 9y ago
      Also if you're not quite ready to kill yourself while using the windows command prompt. Enjoy a powershell.
      - rpeden 9y ago
        You'd probably enjoy Cmder[1]. Everything works really nicely, it supports multiple tabs, and you can download a version that includes most of the Unix commands you know and love. [1] http://cmder.net/ http://cmder.net/