MidnightCarnival opened this issue on Jun 25, 2010 · 17 posts
RobynsVeil posted Sat, 26 June 2010 at 1:46 AM
Um, not natively, MC. You can get something called WINE which will let you run stuff reasonably well, but I found it more fuss than it was worth. Thing is: from a do-it standpoint, you can just do all kinds of stuff in Ubuntu that you really don't need Windows apps... Firefox runs natively in Linux, Blender runs natively in Linux, so does Inkscape, GIMP... so you do those apps instead of the Windows ones. Linux hasn't crashed on me since... well, I'm pretty sure it wasn't during the Rudd administration, may have been once during the Howard years, and then it was because I didn't have the graphics card configured right. No BSOD or anything like that.
Linux can be a bit fiddly to set up, but once it is, you just run and forget it. You forget you're running a different OS, you forget about antivirus, you forget about all sorts of nonsense.
Get yourself an older box - the one sitting out in the garage because the kids no longer find it fast enough to play their games on... wipe the HD clean, and install Ubuntu on it. It will surprise you at just how fast it runs, and how efficiently it hooks up to everything you have (cameras, printers, internet...) even the home network, if you have one. But don't expect Windoze to see your Ubuntu box: Windoze is myopic. Doesn't think another OS even exists. Well, older Windoze... 7 i think seems to have this notion about there being the possibility of Ubuntu out there.
So, I have a Windows XP Pro box exclusively for PS and Poser and Vue and like that, and Ubuntu for everything else.
Monterey/Mint21.x/Win10 - Blender3.x - PP11.3(cm) - Musescore3.6.2
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