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I gotta say, it has been fairly uneventful (I really like uneventful).
I'm going to convert my windows install into a VM, and see how compatible the Linux version of Thunderbird is with my Windows version's data files this weekend. If that works out, all I really have left tethering me to Windows is Visual Studio.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Linux gets better with every release.
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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Yeah, it's pretty close to "i just wanna get sh*t done", and almost doesn't require propeller-head status/skillz.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Yep! It just works!
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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I'm about 2 months ahead of you doing exactly that
1. moved t-bird to linux, no probs, minor bit of fiddling about but trivial
2. installed VS (initially 2013, then 2017) on VM's (with projects in a shared linux directory*
... * no not it's NOT a folder, it's a directory, stupid windows! even ms has chdir, not chfol.)
install t-bird, start it, create dummy account, skip giving it login info, exit t-bird, move the .roaming data directories over, edit profiles.ini to point to the copied ?????.default, edit the prefs.js to point the mail.server.serverx entries to the directories where the mailboxes are, start t-bird.... for me it just worked, the old saved passwords and all.
created a w7 VM (virtualbox), installed 7 - start it and create account, [snapshot], notepad++, inno installer, mysql connector & workbench (running the mysql on the host), couple of others - nothing heavy [snapshot], vs 2017, start vs, set prefs (including point projects at shared linux drive), [snapshot] )
Worthwhile: snapshots along the way, can reset to (or clone from any snapshot) to easily revert/re-create to any point. (Initially I installed vs2013, then using the pre-vs snapshot cloned it and have another with vs2017 - means 2017 installed on vanilla with no old version baggage.)
Also can clone the windows-only for a a completely clean test environment (easier than creating a brand new VM and installing win again.)
Finally a vanilla w10 VM, for testing. (Host only network, I'll enable it's full network only once in a blue moon so it will only ever update when I say.)
Keep the projects outside the VM - super easy to point any new/old VM at the dev/release locations - no need to fart about copying and pasting.
BTW: w10 vs w7 on equal VM's: w10 boots, runs, and even shuts down noticeably slower. worse still even just idling w10 causes my machine run 5 - 10 degrees warmer than 7. And of course 10 (vs 7) still sucks as a dev env - it's just wrong and really unhelpful.
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I'm gonna pick up a used NUC this weekend (i3 dual core, 4gb DDR4, 60gb ssd) with Linux already installed. Gonna put Kodi on it and use it as a HTPC. This will be the 5th Linux box on my network.
I need to convince my wife to try Linux. She might go for it if I put her Win7 into a VM to serve as a backup...
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Way to go!
Years back I used various *nix - full-on propeller-head mode, and was expecting more of the same.
When I set up this machine a couple of months ago was surprised, it really was even easier than installing windows, everything fully worked out of the box, very first boot.
Same as you, only 1 thing tying me to windows is vs (for work), Absolutely everything else is on the 'nux, and well, it's just better, way better. (faster, cleaner, less stupid crap happening.)
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I tried (probably over a year ago) to use a low-requirements distribution (Lubuntu) to use pretty much exclusively with my projector - simple task - and what made me roll back to Windows is the fact that I couldn't get a driver that could do hardware graphics acceleration. Could find very little help, and installing a video driver is apparently beyond my patience with Linux.
480p video was fine, 720p was stuttery, and 1080p was impossible to play. The same videos, on the same hardware, with a proper video driver, work flawlessly.
Let us know how it works out with the NUC.
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Amen to the snapshots! I'm on a Mac but have to run a windows VM for certain functions (The database schema tool is PowerDesigner 7. Don't ask, it's a painful as it sounds.) Periodically, when making a schema change something happens in the process (a huge honkin' convoluted mess of a process) and you are completely hosed.
Snapshots have saved my bacon more than once. I do them regularly when needing to make a schema change, before and after a successful completion.
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<nitpicking mode>
Directory ⊆ Folder
A directory is a file system concept while the folder is a container in the shell namespace.
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Next step is vim.
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Run a DOS VM, Viola: Edlin 
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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Quote: Viola
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redneck for voila
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: If that works out, all I really have left tethering me to Windows is Visual Studio.
Visual Studio Code with .NET Core should work on Linux 
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Just installed it on the new (linux) laptop.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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I'm closing on 10 years of Linux as main OS, with lot of VM's for years...
Now I closed SQL VM (running on Linux itself) and dropped VS in favor of VS Code about a year ago... Granted that VS have more features but VS Code get's more and more of it already and basicaly built on a very powerful plug-in system, so I can extend it to myself with very little effort...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Do Church mice talk to you about Cheesus?
(Early today: I have to take Herself shoe shopping, gawd help me. I'm driving as well, so I can't just hide in a nearby pub.)
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
modified 5-Oct-18 8:57am.
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You own personal cheeses[^], no less. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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You took a Chancel with that one and it doesn't Altar the fact you fell right into my trap.
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Oh pew
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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word of advice: church mice make lousy pointing devices - too often moved by the holy spirit.
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You saying their mouse pad is a Ouiji board?
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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OriginalGriff wrote: I have to take Herself shoe shopping, gawd help me. I'm driving as well, so I can't just hide in a nearby pub
Oh God, not shoes. You realize of course that once she buys the shoes, she'll have to buy a new dress to go with them (which will take an ![Elephant | [mastadon]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/elephant.gif) ing age), and then when you're drooling from boredom and not paying close attention she'll ask you the terrifying question:
"Does this dress make me look fat?"
Software Zen: delete this;
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