Today I reinstalled Windows

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Thu Sep 17 08:58:57 BST 2009


2009/9/17 Conrad Knauer <atheoi at gmail.com>:

> Why not simply install Ubuntu on the machine and then cage XP inside VirtualBox?
> What specifically is Windows needed for? (if games, have you tried the
> 3D support that's being added?
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzAyNA )


The Windows Live shite, actually.

The virtual machine idea is appallingly tempting.

Mind you, how's Linux driver support for the Radeon 800? Still either
shit or a nightmare of binary blobs?


- d.



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