On 03/08/2013 10:19 PM, Bill wrote:
Doug Winterburn wrote:
On 03/08/2013 09:27 PM, Richard wrote:
On 3/8/2013 9:51 PM, PHT wrote:



This sounds like a very good time to dump the windows OS and install
Linux. A far better OS.

Paul

Which is unfortunately far behind as a consumer product...

What is your latest experience and with linux and what distribution
are you basing this on?

As a "user" rather than a "consumer", I have had a very good
experience with linux for the last 18 years.

Can you run SketchUp on it?


One way to have the best of both Windows and Linux is to install vmware
player on windows and install linux as a virtual machine. This works
well with the large amounts of RAM and drive space on newer machines and
linux as a vm will perform almost as well as running natively. You can
do the same in reverse by running linux natively with windows as a a vm.



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