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Quote below from Learning C the Hard Way "For Windows users I'll show you how to get a basic Ubuntu Linux system up and running in a virtual machine so that yo

Quote below from Learning C the Hard Way "For Windows users I'll show you how to get a basic Ubuntu Linux system up and running in a virtual machine so that you can still do all of my exercises, but avoid all the painful Windows installation problems." A bootable Ubuntu USB stick with persistent storage might be easier to get started with? Can be created from a Live CD. Interesting idea.

RegEx 14y ago
I dual booted for about a year, and then I used virtual machines instead for the last year. Using virtual machines has been a LOT easier. I use Lubuntu on Virtualbox, and I don't plan on going back. Things that annoy me about Ubuntu dual boot * My Wacom tablet is terribly hard to configure on Ubuntu. * Flash support seems to be hit or miss in terms of out of the box functionality. Sometimes it works right when you install chromium, sometimes it doesn't * Windows weird partitioning. Windows will only let you have 1 or 2 of these special types of partitions on your HDD, and I somehow maxed out that partition count and couldn't fix it. It was very difficult to work with.
- keithpeter 14y ago
  Whatever works with your hardware and use cases! I was thinking more of a group of people meeting to work through the Learn C the hard way book, perhaps in a coffee bar or something, bringing their own laptops. A bootable stick might make a C environment more accessible to them. The puredyne project produced a bootable linux specifically to provide a common environment for training in audio production. Seemed to work for them.
  - RegEx 14y ago
    If you bring a copy of the ISO you can have them all on starting from the same Virtualbox install (takes 5 minutes to set up without knowing the software + Ubuntu installation time). But I've heard Vagrant is good for use cases like yours, though I haven't personally used it. That sounds like a fun activity by the way, have fun with that :)
- pekk 14y ago
  That's strange, I've never had a problem with Wacom on Ubuntu
  - RegEx 14y ago
    I have 28" monitors, so I had to do some command line configuration to make the tablet respond. It may feel like the appropriate sensitivity out of the box on a smaller screen. There was also no GUI configuration last time I checked.
nachteilig 14y ago
CS50 has sort of taken this track -- definitely a nice way to go about constructing a learning environment.

RegEx 14y ago

I dual booted for about a year, and then I used virtual machines instead for the last year. Using virtual machines has been a LOT easier. I use Lubuntu on Virtualbox, and I don't plan on going back. Things that annoy me about Ubuntu dual boot * My Wacom tablet is terribly hard to configure on Ubuntu. * Flash support seems to be hit or miss in terms of out of the box functionality. Sometimes it works right when you install chromium, sometimes it doesn't * Windows weird partitioning. Windows will only let you have 1 or 2 of these special types of partitions on your HDD, and I somehow maxed out that partition count and couldn't fix it. It was very difficult to work with.

keithpeter 14y ago
Whatever works with your hardware and use cases! I was thinking more of a group of people meeting to work through the Learn C the hard way book, perhaps in a coffee bar or something, bringing their own laptops. A bootable stick might make a C environment more accessible to them. The puredyne project produced a bootable linux specifically to provide a common environment for training in audio production. Seemed to work for them.
- RegEx 14y ago
  If you bring a copy of the ISO you can have them all on starting from the same Virtualbox install (takes 5 minutes to set up without knowing the software + Ubuntu installation time). But I've heard Vagrant is good for use cases like yours, though I haven't personally used it. That sounds like a fun activity by the way, have fun with that :)
pekk 14y ago
That's strange, I've never had a problem with Wacom on Ubuntu
- RegEx 14y ago
  I have 28" monitors, so I had to do some command line configuration to make the tablet respond. It may feel like the appropriate sensitivity out of the box on a smaller screen. There was also no GUI configuration last time I checked.

nachteilig 14y ago

CS50 has sort of taken this track -- definitely a nice way to go about constructing a learning environment.