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Kinda expected. This will be interesting.
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Finally!!!! 
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It will if the cost of Xamarin comes down to a reasonable level as a result - which I'd imagine it could. That could really boost usage of .NET (ish) into the mobile market which presumably is why MS are buying them in the first place. Either that or to crush them utterly - difficult to tell with MS sometimes...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Didn't go very well.
Installed Ubuntu in VMWare player, worked fine.
Downloaded some updates, restarted, works not so fine.
It hanged at startup on "Stopping Restore Sound Card State".
Removed the virtual sound card and it now hangs on "Stopping System V runlevel compatibility".
I guess the same goes for Linux as for Windows, don't install updates 
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This _IS_ the _YEAR_ of the LINUX DESKTOP!!!!!
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raddevus wrote: This IS the YEAR of the LINUX DESKTOP!!!!!
Again?
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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If I had a pound for every year that has been the year of the linux desktop, I could probably buy a few beers.
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My first Linux experiences went very well:
- Installed Mint.
- Installed Wine.
To my surprise:
W32 App including SQL Server works perfect.
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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I'll try Mint next, after I'm done with Debian (which I don't like already and the installer hasn't even finished yet)
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Unfortunately Mint doesn't give me the right screen resolution and it ignores the VMWare Player.
Other than that it seems to work fine.
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no matter what: make sure you get the extensions installed - then all should be fine
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Yeah, my Mint Linux experience was good too. The only thing that wasn't working after the install was the printer. Just had to go to the Brother's website, download and install.
So far (about 3 months now) everything is working great. It helps that I pretty much just use open source/cross platform applications for my normal computing needs (Firefox, Thunderbird, Octave, Libre Office, g++, etc). I really like being in control of my own freaking computer!
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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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