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How to get a Windows tax refund (Linux.com)
How to get a Windows tax refund (Linux.com)
Posted Jan 5, 2007 21:23 UTC (Fri) by yodermk (subscriber, #3803)Parent article: How to get a Windows tax refund (Linux.com)
It's good to see this. Of course, there are other options.
http://powernotebooks.com sells several laptops without Windows, as do a few other sites. Some are also available on eBay sans OS. Desktop? Build it yourself, that's better anyway.
I'll be buying a new laptop myself soon, and at any previous time I would have been thrilled about this. However, I think I actually will need to keep a small 'doze partition for one reason: GPS street nav software. Yes, I've tried GPSdrive, but it just isn't the same. I sure wish Linux could compete here. I actually tried Street Atlas USA under Wine, and the result was encouraging (I could browse the map), but probably not *quite* good enough.
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How to get a Windows tax refund (Linux.com)
Posted Jan 7, 2007 19:25 UTC (Sun) by sjj (guest, #2020) [Link]
Dual booting is so last century. Just make sure your laptop's CPU *and* motherboard support virtualization (although vmware will run fine without it).
How to get a Windows tax refund (Linux.com)
Posted Jan 8, 2007 11:13 UTC (Mon) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]
I installed Windows using KVM, just on a lark.
Works fine. A bit slow, but is fast enough for Flash playback (for example).
No 3d acceleration and video is a bit slow. Sound works great.
If you don't need it for games then it'll work great for you.
In FACT.. Now that I think about it you may even be able to use Synergy2 to go back and forth between the desktops with copy and paste support and such...