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Completely agree. If you're in Ubuntu and need to get work done in a Windows app, do it in XP on VirtualBox. It's the right way. Nlite your XP install down so
by oliwarner 14y ago
Completely agree. If you're in Ubuntu and need to get work done in a Windows app, do it in XP on VirtualBox. It's the right way.
Nlite your XP install down so it's "wather thin" for extra credit. I can be in Ubuntu one second, load up my VBox image and three seconds later I'm sitting at a usable XP desktop. Photoshop (et al) are fast but most importantly they're reliable and stable.
Wine does work for some things (games mostly) but you lose any sort of guaranteed reliability.
- peterwiese 14y agoWhy not win7?
- oliwarner 14y agoTwo reasons: I don't own a license for it and based on my preview testing, I don't need it. I don't boot an instance of Windows for the Windows experience, I'm doing it so I can load another application so I can get things done. Plus XP's Minesweeper and Sol are much better... For much the same reasons.
- jnbiche 14y agoYeah, I've actually got an Nlite-ed copy of XP I've burned that I could use, and I almost pulled it out when I first installed XP on VirtualBox, but I've been so happy with vanilla XP on Virtualbox on Linux Mint that I've not felt the need to dig it out. But if you have less than 4 GB of RAM or so, and you plan to run something like Photoshop on XP via Virtualbox on a Linux host, it would probably be a good idea to use Nlite.