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Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows
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Re: Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows
#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
The specific case of terrible video drivers might have been slightly better these days (because part of it has been moved to user mode, so crashing it just means your screen flashes and weird for a second). Spending more time with it can let you find _different_ things to hate, of course. In general, all software suck.
> because part of it has been moved to user mode, so crashing it just means your screen flashes and weird for a second You mean on Linux, right? Because in Windows 10, going full screen in a youtube video on an external screen routinely causes my entire system to crash (BSOD, error dump, restart).
I'm on windows 10 with a shitty "optimus" enabled laptop. The NVidia drivers routinely crash (typically when viewing a heavy webGL enabled page) and windows 10 just flashes at me and throws up a notification saying my graphics drivers have crashed but it helpfully restarted the drivers for me.
Perhaps you have a different issue? Maybe a hardware failure? Windows 10 should not be BSODing for a graphics driver failure
Re: Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows
#173For me, modern virtualization has gotten so good that it's my preferred solution. kvm, libvirt, virtio, and PCI passthrough et al have opened up a whole new world of possibilities. Currently still requires fairly specific hardware and kind of a pain to figure out how to make it work, but it's already very impressive. This is still really cool though.
Do you have any more info on this?
I have to do some work on a Linux VM, but also need Windows for Office and a few other apps.
But the Fedora VM is much slower than the native OS, even with a good SSD and plenty of Ram. I could care less about games / GPU, but the CPU / disk IO is just much slower. I use VMWare Workstation, so maybe that's my problem.
Re: Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows
#174At this point why not just have a Linux system on your local network and connect with VNC from Windows...? You can have a Linux environment to hack around in while getting to use all the "nice" Windows GUI apps.
VNC has never been near as fast as even Remote Desktop, and even that is pretty slow for anything more than basic administration. Maybe in a local lan it would work better, but I doubt considering it's slow even in a VM on a powerful workstation.
It's getting to the point where I'm thinking about using a Windows laptop and Linux desktop with a KVM switch, but then I'm not portable.
Re: Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows
#175Earlier quoted context omitted.
But there are a lot of things which are extremely annoying in the default settings. For example in localised versions of Outlook, replys don't get "RE" in the subject line but, e.g. in the German version "AW". Also other behaviours which makes using Outlook really painfull. (Which I can't remember because I didn't use for a while now) Yeah, I usualy turn displaying remote images off too. Also, are there really compan…
My Outlook deals with AW and RE transparently, to the point where I don't even see any of them when in conversation mode. What's the specific problem you have with it?
Maybe she doesn't want her non outlook using friends to have to wonder what AW means?
Re: Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows
#176Earlier quoted context omitted.
You miss the point. By config she means whether to display html mail as html, whether to display images from external sources, her language (for spell checking), her preferred set of fonts etc
OK - but if you've just changed job, the overhead of this will get lost in the noise. And this even assumes that these decisions are rightly to be left up to the employee, and not decided by the company. (E.g., HTML email display and/or displaying remote images may be a security risk, and so it could be banned entirely. It's not unusual to mandate fonts and signature for public-facing correspondence. And so on.)
On my first day in a new job I want to get through set up as soon as possible so that I can actually start to get stuck into some deliverables. I don't want to spend 30 minutes faffing with my email client.
Re: Running I3 Window Manager on Ubuntu for Windows
#177There’s something about “translating system calls” that just makes me wary. It’s the kind of thing that could be proven to work for some common cases while failing in mysterious ways for others (not to mention being hard to debug). Generally, there is a gap between what’s documented, what was thought to be true, and what is. At some point they will produce behavior that just doesn’t match what compiled code expects.…
Bryan Cantrill has a wonderful talk about exactly this in Illumos that I recommend at every opportunity https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hgN8pCMLI2U
Err, I meant https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrfD3pC0VSs