OT: Windows Virtual Machine Software

[Stephen]

Windows 8 gets allot better with classicshell.net or stardocks start8. I
also found modernmix was another large improvement.



On Thursday, August 15, 2013, Lisa Kachold wrote:

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> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Trent Shipley <trent_shipley at yahoo.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'trent_shipley at yahoo.com');>
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>> I have a Windows 8 laptop on order.
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>> I would like to run Ubuntu as a guest on a virtual machine.  What are
>> some good candidates?  It doesn't have to be free, but VMware for
>> Workstations would be overkill at this point.  Is Oracle still developing
>> Virtual Box?
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> Trent,
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> You might find that Win8 is more of a "tablet" OS and without the touch
> screen it's not really what you need?
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> In that case you can install Ubuntu (if you like the Unity Desktop) after
> imaging it or dual boot install (Ubuntu provides for this trivially).
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> Personally, my Windows systems are so slow I prefer using Linux on
> everything.
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Stephen
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