Linux FTW?

I'm considering a full switch very soon. I haven't tried hardy yet by the way...

A question:

If I run Windows XP/Vista as a virtual machine within Ubuntu, will I be able to run CorelDraw X3 and Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop primarily) on the virtual machine? (Without significant performance drops)

If yes, then I have no reason to keep windows...
 
Velenoso said:
I'm considering a full switch very soon. I haven't tried hardy yet by the way...

A question:

If I run Windows XP/Vista as a virtual machine within Ubuntu, will I be able to run CorelDraw X3 and Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop primarily) on the virtual machine? (Without significant performance drops)

If yes, then I have no reason to keep windows...
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Yes you are able to do so. I would recommend using VirtualBox though- you have up to 128MB VRAM then. It will not be as fast as running Windows natively, but is fast nevertheless and works pretty well. I do web development in a virtual machine and I am happy with the performance.
 
Velenoso said:
I'm considering a full switch very soon. I haven't tried hardy yet by the way...

A question:

If I run Windows XP/Vista as a virtual machine within Ubuntu, will I be able to run CorelDraw X3 and Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop primarily) on the virtual machine? (Without significant performance drops)

If yes, then I have no reason to keep windows...
Click to expand...

I run dreamweaver and photoshop cs2 in a virtual machine.
 
Sufficient RAM to run both Linux at full capacity (ie idle applications and Virtualbox) and the Virtual machine is all that is required to run a VM without any noticeable lag. 2GB I would say is the minimum recommended. I use 1GB of RAM for my VM and the rest to run the applications in Linux. (However I use gnome then as it uses significantly less RAM than KDE)
 
Ubuntu and the Compiz/Beryl cube works great for multi-tasking. Lyx can take a while to get used, so still using Win Office for documents/reference etc.
So yeah, still doing the dual booting thing, maybe try the VM think in the future. Ubuntu is just much more fun :) and a lot of excellent programs can only run on Linux,
e.g. R...
Windows is dying slowly :D.
 
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Chiskop,

I have tried Open Office and Abiword, nice software. Just a few minor niggles that is putting me off (e.g. short cut keys, graphs etc) atm. I'd rather learn Lyx from scratch and use Office because I'm comfortable with it. Once I'm happy with the functionalities of Lyx I'll migrate and say good-bye too Windows.

Lyx is a document processor using LaTex. Lyx, once you have played around a LOT with it (which I have not) looks like it could be better than word for structured documents like academic articles, publications, theses, and books. Jabref (and Bibtex) can also be incorporated if you want to build a massive bibliography database, then you don't have to go and search for references and referencing styles (harvard, vancouver etc), it converts it automatically.

lyx is not the only one off course, Miktex also looks good.
 
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Okay cool - thought that was what lyx did. I would like to learn it too, but yeah time... I just thought you were looking for an analog of Word etc in linux.
 
Been using Linux almost exclusively now for the last 2 and a half years. By almost exclusively I mean 98%+ of the time. I will sometimes fire up a game in XP. But I am gaming less and less these days so that XP partition is in grave danger.

I have a NTFS partition that I setup way back when to share media between linux and windows. I will fairly shortly be reformatting that to a reiser partition.
 
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