8GB?? Are you KIDDING ME??
Posted By matt on March 31, 2009
Scroll down to the space used after default install chart.
Windows Vista x86 uses 8.2 GB out of the box.
No wonder they’re not putting it on netbooks with SSD’s.
Oh, and I betcha it doesn’t come with as much software as Ubuntu… like a full office suite.
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I really gotta install Ubuntu one of these days…
If you need help, just ask.
You can try it out with Wubi or install VMWare or Virtualbox and either set up your own virtual machine, or download a prebuilt image. You can also boot it from a live cd and try it that way.
Setting aside for a moment the fact that that's a small step up from Aramaic for me, I basically need to know two things: is it any harder to set up a wireless network for the girls' laptops (I understand Ubuntu is supposed to be the idiot-proof Linux), and can my wife play The Sims.
In reverse order:
can my wife play The Sims.
Sort answer – no. The Sims is a windows program. You need to be running Windows to use windows programs.
Long answer: Maybe. You can run windows in a virtual machine, or possibly run it under Wine, which is a program which lets you run Windows programs under Linux. I've not had much luck with it.
is it any harder to set up a wireless network
Well, the network is already there, provided by your wireless router, right? So, all you're doing is connecting to it.
I find it excessively simple to connect to wireless networks under Ubuntu. They're using a program called NetworkManager which sits by the clock and manages network connections. You click on it, enter whatever information is demanded by your network, and it connects.
This is provided, of course, that your networking card is supported.
I can't really compare it to Windows, because the last time I used Windows for anything other than in a VM under Linux (where it doesn't see the actual networking card) was before wireless was popular.
my next box will be Ubuntu or Fedora.
–H
If you need help, just ask.
You can try it out with Wubi or install VMWare or Virtualbox and either set up your own virtual machine, or download a prebuilt image. You can also boot it from a live cd and try it that way.
I've done a couple installs of this, one was to my dad's computer, but he needed to use a scanner for his slides, and it was just easier to put the machine on winblows xp. I have tried using vmware, but it's a nuisance to jump back and forth between OS's to do the things I want.
Browsing the internet is no big deal, but playing Hellgate London or other games and the wireless on the craptop [my primary computer today] doesn't work as well under *nix.
–H
but playing Hellgate London or other games
That will be a problem. However, if you play the free/open source games (especially multiplayer online shooters), it's less of one.
and the wireless on the craptop…
What card/chipset? I can't say that I've had wireless problems in the past 3 laptops – I just don't even worry about it anymore.