Finally swaped to Linux :D

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Thats it. About three hours ago my fuse blew. Ive had it with windows. So I went and got myself a 64bit Kubuntu distro, got it installed and now I'm happly using my KDE :D:D

But... I need to get a windows emulator running. I've heard from some to use VMware Player.

I need to be able to run windows, in a window, including DirectX calls, and all those silly little dlls for my trading.

Can anyone give any advice please?
 
OMG, another Ubuntu convert. Anyways, you need to look at WINE or if you want a VM look at Virtualbox and VMWare. Dont' think any offer 3D support but don't see why you would need that with trading.

A feelgood place for you would be www.ubuntuforums.org. Nice warm fuzzy place with kid gloves and 10 gazillion noobs posting questions which have been answered a million times before.
 
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Welcome to the Linux Universe, agentrfr.

Here you will experience pain & pleasure, but most of all.....freedom. :)
 
Welcome :p

Get Virtualbox. But get it from www.virtualbox.org and get the proper one. It supports DirectX in beta mode still, as this (DirectX) is a new thing for emulation.
I find that it runs pretty much as fast as Windows runs natively, so you shouldn't have any lag whatsoever in your trading applications.
 
agentrfr said:
Thats it. About three hours ago my fuse blew. Ive had it with windows. So I went and got myself a 64bit Kubuntu distro, got it installed and now I'm happly using my KDE :D:D

But... I need to get a windows emulator running. I've heard from some to use VMware Player.

I need to be able to run windows, in a window, including DirectX calls, and all those silly little dlls for my trading.

Can anyone give any advice please?
kingrob said:
Welcome to the Linux Universe, agentrfr.

Here you will experience pain & pleasure, but most of all.....freedom. :)
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Oh DeaR?

ANYWAY MY TURN SOONER THAN LATER, BUT GIVE UP WINDOWS? NEVER!

Best of both worlds is my motto!
 
well done, you wont regret it... I still dual boot with windows for about 5% of my work, but Im looking forward to the day I can put microsoft behind me
 
I don't know if we will ever really be MS free, most of have to make a living and most of our clients use MS... Having said that it seems like MS OS is just getting worse and worse. Everyone was delirious about Vista when it first came out, then the bubble burst. Now everyone is singing the praises of how wonderful 7 is...

Pleaseeee, what is 7? Its just Vista with a few bugs removed. The problem is that Vista was one big bug, so they should have started from scratch... Anyway, my point is that hopefully more and more people will migrate to Linux / Mac. I think that if there was a critical number of users on those OS's then perhaps their own development (in terms of user friendliness for non tech users) would be accelerated..

And I know, some of them are very very close (Mandriva which I use, Ubuntu, etc)...

John
 
If anybody could suggest a freeware accounting package for linux - that is solid, user friendly and has customisable reports, please let me know. I can then relinquish MS from my life for good. Oh yes, and something that is localised and doesn't require hours to setup MySQL databases and PHP scripts.

Damn you Windows.
 
Okay, so I've never used Kubuntu (or KDE for that matter)... what is the recommendation versus Gnome?
 
I use Vbox at work for a few websites that need IE, but as kingrob said, download the PUEL version directly from their website. The one in the repos is the OSE version, and doesn't have USB support amongst others.

Also highly recommend bookmarking ubuntuforums.org, I have found 95% of the answers to any questions/problems I've had, there. But please, do a search first, most of the questions have been answered already. Failing that, try Google as well, the other 4% that I can't find answers to on UF, I usually find by dropping the query or error message into Google, and finding the solution that way. The last 1% is all on my own after a bit of hacking around, but that is not often necessary.

B
 
timgaul said:
Okay, so I've never used Kubuntu (or KDE for that matter)... what is the recommendation versus Gnome?
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It boils down to personal preference, that's it. Try KDE, Gnome, Xfce, Openbox etc and pick what you like.
 
I recommend Virtualbox too, I paid for parallels but their updates can crash apps when 3D is enabled, Virtualbox has a 3D implementation that is bieng improved constantly.
 
@tim - gnucash may be what you're looking for.
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Ja, I've looked at it, but I need something for a small business. Gnucash is just not robust enough as I need to do Invoices, Orders, etc. Using TurboCash on Windows at the moment, apparently its able to run under Wine, but mine just crashes.
 
timvdwest said:
Ja, I've looked at it, but I need something for a small business. Gnucash is just not robust enough as I need to do Invoices, Orders, etc. Using TurboCash on Windows at the moment, apparently its able to run under Wine, but mine just crashes.
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TurbCrash? :) Perhaps you too need to install Virtualbox eh? Wine sucks ass, leave it alone :)
 
Ye, just installed TurboCash on VirtualBox now, can't get the Virtual windows to see my printer though - so I print to PDF and then just print from Ubuntu.
 
timvdwest said:
Ye, just installed TurboCash on VirtualBox now, can't get the Virtual windows to see my printer though - so I print to PDF and then just print from Ubuntu.
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If you enable the USB port in virtualbox for the printer Windows should pick it up, have had no issues printing through Virtualbox on Linux, the OSE version won't allow it though.
 
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