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I haven't touched it in over 5 years. Once you get over the novelty aspect and need to do something simple like install a driver, you realize it's just not worth it. OK, I've gotten it to boot, now what do I do with it?  Install Wine so I can run Windows apps? 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I have three versions of Linux on VirtualBox. Don't know why. I open them up occasionally to see if they are still there.
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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Ahhh, takes me back to my first Linux experience. Lost an entire Sunday trying to install the bleeding thing. This was when I was at uni (Dial Up internet, so couldn't download a better installer with ease). Personally why the Linux desktop, it owns the embedded world.
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VMWare player? I see your problem.
Try VirtualBox. I have had much better experiences with it. VMWare never worked for me. From crashes to corrupted VMs, there was no end to the problems.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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I'll check it out 
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I have Hyper-V up and running. (you do have to tinker with BIOS option)
With my fine Hyper-V I installed run Linux Ubuntu no worries!
Then I forgot about it and never went back to it!
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I had to turn off Hyper-V. I think VMWare and Hyper-V don't work well together, if you want one you'll have to turn off the other.
There was this quick command that turned it on or off... I needed it for a Windows Phone Emulator, that wasn't fun as I really need both. Spend an afternoon editing some code, restarting, testing, restarting, editing, restarting, etc.
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i had many first times...
1: managed to install solaris in 2005 - somehow got a gui once and never again. no idea what was going on. gave up.
2: installed some sort of linux distro we used as a firewall as work in 2009. didn't know what was going on; no gui. gave up.
3: installed centos in 2013. made an enormous cockup while trying to be clever with the partitions. spent two days trying to fix the grub bootloader and editing various things using vim. had no idea what i was doing and didn't get it right. enjoyed all of it for some reason. reinstalled successfully and played around with it for a bit and now i like linux, but i hardly ever get a chance to use it. but i try.
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Never really understood why I have to get back to the console area...
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Me neither, I hate the console. Makes me feel like I live in the 70's/80's, and I didn't.
Still, Linux is free so it's easy and cheap to spin up a VM for personal use
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Well had similar experiences.
Let me tell you what happened: tried Ubuntu, Arch, OpenSUSE and Mint in VM - installed Mint for dual boot - started windows less and less - last xmas (!) I had enough and removed the stupid windows partition to make space for my steam games - now I am a very Happy Linux user
I'm fine with this: Windows at work, Linux at home - besides VisualStudio I miss nothing on Linux - the other way ... well let's say I am at the point where I happily install emacs just to get eshell ^^
IMO if you are a programmer that is not married to Microsoft (you don't develop .net or work in an AD environment) then you should go for Linux - it's just the saner choice.
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I basically had the exact same experience, just add a few more distos to the tried list. Even had a spare laptop and installed them right to hardware.
Now I'm running Mint in Dual boot, and only use Windows for games.
Mint is my daily machine. I even have VMware workstation on my Linux host and run a Win VM for .NET programming.
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I develop .NET with SQL Server back-ends
I want some Linux to try something else for a change and to mess around with some tools like Docker, Jenkins, what have you, without messing up my working machine.
I'm currently at Mint, but I get some issues with screen resolutions...
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I remember when I did it... the installation and config was not bad, it went well.... the problem was when I start using it... dude, totally lost, and the applications and easy stuff I used to do in Win, were totally a mess. In my case I installed a fresh version in a separated Hard Disk, so no boot issues at all, I just chose what HDD want to start from the Bios Boot sequence, that allowed no intrusion from Win into Linux, or Linux on Win (I could remove anyone without problems)
Then even if it was a more stable, OS, my final user experience was so bad, that I toke me some minutes to understand that no one in my home or office would be able to use it, they will not be able to find the apps or do their work. You can compare it to today's Windows Phone vs (Android or Iphone) even when Windows Phone requires less Hardware and resources, is faster, you can call it Better, people doesn't like it cause they don't know how to use it, even when you teach them how to use, they will not like it cause the rest of the world is not using it!!!
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DarkChuky CR wrote: You can compare it to today's Windows Phone vs (Android or Iphone)
Windows Phone is my favorite actually! Very easy to use. To bad it's missing the apps 
I had more trouble getting used to Android.
Everything Apple is a disaster by default 
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Agree, as Android had growth to become a more complex OS, it now suffer from the issues of bigger OS: more memory, more processor, too much default background process, less battery life, and developers are like we got a lot of memory, who cares!!!....
I got one Lumia 625 for free, and I was like WTF how can this phone do all this with just 512MB!!! now got my hands in a lumia 1520 and I'm like what a beast!!! I wanted it to try to develop some Apps, and now I'm using it as my main phone, it's quicker, easier and faster, only current issues is Whatsapp not being able to save pictures in a different folder, dude everything is spaming in the photos app, but everything else is awesome, got all the apps I was using for real in my old Note 2. (now my Note 2 is taking vacations, it's safely stored in my home desk)
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Something eerily similar happened to me on Tuesday. I've been running Ubuntu in VMware for several months for development in Qt targeting a small device.
After accepting available updates, I agreed to "restart now." It failed to boot. A more Linux-knowledgeable colleague got it working again for me. He backed out the kernel update, which in my case was linux-image-3.19.0.51-generic.
Here’s a possibly helpful link:
boot - How to delete a non-working kernel after update? - Ask Ubuntu[^]
BDF
The internet makes dumb people dumber and clever people cleverer.
-- PaulowniaK
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Until I realised my motherboard only supports SATA 2.
A quick power-down, cable swap, and BIOS change, and I'm twice as fast! You can notice it when VS loads.
6Gb/sec. That's fairly rapid, really...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: You can notice it when VS loads
Finally, a good use for VStudio...
...as I/O test software.
It really is an I/O pig. Especially at startup.
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Ain't that the truth!
Any Corel product works as well. And Adobe too...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Hi All,
I have as regulars may know, I have a task to develop some ATE equipment and processes for a company. I have found the relevant circuit board bit more fiddling have got the board working(!) just need a relevant project file so I can write the GUI in C#, lot of searching I have found a VB.Net project (regulars Griff will know of my love for VB.NET) so I am wondering if there is a converter for projects rather than bits of code like Convert VB.NET to C# - A free code conversion tool - developer Fusion[^] I have used extensively! Really the only thing the DLL for talking to board will not appear as a COM Port. 
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Why convert the project? Keep it as a VB assembly, and reference it in the C# UI.
Why reinvent the wheel, if all you are doing is probably introducing problems?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I plane didn't think of that! but found a web site linked to the developer fusion one that has a service to do the change from VB.Net to C#
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If it ain't broke...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Is the syntax of VB really so appalling that you refuse to work with it? I find that funny as it simply uses the alphabet which we read every day.
Other than the syntax it's .NET, so the same as C# (possibly with Option Strict set to Off, which is bad).
Automatically converting it won't make the code any better (but probably worse), you'll just have bad code that's written slightly different.
I'm so tired of this C# vs. VB.NET debate.
It's the same framework with (mostly ) the same options.
Do you really feel so much better because you write C# instead of VB?
Personally I've seen code in both C# and VB that makes you want to spoon your eyes out.
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