[aklug] Re: Wife's hard drive is failing

iTunes doesn't work well in native Windows. It only works well in OSX.
But OSX can be made to work in Virtualbox... so... that brings us back
to a linux host and virtualization. Except that I've never actually
been able to get OSX to work WELL in Virtualbox on this particular
computer with a Win7 host. It is like Wine being a hobby, not a
solution.

Found one - only one - "must have" for Windows. My daughters both love
playing Sims3. Allegedly it can be made to work with Wine
(PlayOnLinux). I've basically resigned myself to the conclusion that
this particular box will only reach its true potential as a linux host
when it finally becomes "too crusty" for everyone else to use. Which
is unlikely to happen any time soon, as vigilant as I've been about
making sure that garbage doesn't get installed on it.

On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 6:46 PM, <bryanm@acsalaska.net> wrote:
> On Tue, November 13, 2012 9:31 am, David Prentice wrote:
> <snip>
>> Plan C: new drive, linux install, Wine & Virtualbox.
>>
>> Trying to figure out just EXACTLY what it is that everyone uses on
>> this computer that depends on Windows, that cannot be done from a
>> linux host with either Wine or a Windows virtual guest.
>
> I understand that iTunes doesn't work well under Wine. That was a
> blocker for a co-worker of mine. As for virtualized Windows, though,
> I figured everything (or nearly everything) would work fine there.
>
> Was I wrong about that?
>
> --
> Bryan Medsker
> bryanm@acsalaska.net
>
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Received on Wed Nov 14 08:10:58 2012