beauty

Posted Nov 2, 2006 22:05 UTC (Thu) by niner (subscriber, #26151)
In reply to: beauty by einstein
Parent article: Linux on More Dell Client Systems? (Direct2Dell)

Microsoft talked much about synergy effects when using the same OS on the server that's already running on the desktop. Well ironically Linux gave me exactly these effects. I know the system that runs on my servers pretty intimically, because it's exactly the same that's running on my desktop, every day. It's just priceless to be able to say "Oh, that's that problem I had a few months ago on my machine, this is how to fix it: ..." or to know how to move the installed system to that new server hardware because I needed exactly the same when I got a new computer at home.

Everything could be fine, except for that I can not just try out Xen, run it every day and learn much about the problems and how to handle them, because I then could no longer do some other things I want to do on that machine. Like watching some movie with my girlfriend or fire up FlightGear and relax a little after a day full of work. And the only thing that keeps me from doing this is incidentally the only closed source code I have to run, the "beautifully working" nvidia drivers...

beauty

Posted Nov 2, 2006 22:46 UTC (Thu) by dlang (guest, #313) [Link]

I moved to a linux desktop about 9 years ago for this very reason. I spent all day long working on *nix systems, by moving my desktop to linux I gained significantly by not having to shift mental gears between windows and *nix.

David Lang

beauty

Posted Nov 3, 2006 4:30 UTC (Fri) by einstein (guest, #2052) [Link] (1 responses)

> And the only thing that keeps me from doing this is incidentally the only closed source code I have to run, the "beautifully working" nvidia drivers...

Nobody forced you to use nvidia - if you don't like the setup, yank the nvidia and install an old voodo 3 or other card with FOSS OpenGL. That's the beauty of having choice.

beauty

Posted Nov 20, 2006 19:41 UTC (Mon) by linuxrocks123 (subscriber, #34648) [Link]

By recommending that he use a different card, you are admitting that the
Nvidia drivers do /not/ work beautifully, which was the point of his
comment.