Comments on: Why Windows users don’t/won’t switch

By: db

db — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 04:52:53 +0000

by then, there might even be a gOS appliance ready. For now, only Ubuntu

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 00:11:35 +0000

Ah, you’ve done better than I then. I wish I still had my old G3 around to play with some times, it seems this would be perfect for it.

By: chris

chris — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 23:45:36 +0000

I've had mixed results..sometimes it quits itself- sometimes it quits when it gets to a portion of the intsall about a unix printer driver or something...

I'd like to try installing gOS on my inlwas ancient dell computers (one clocks in at 233mhz, the other at 400mhz<-- my wife's old computer). I keep trying to get them to buy a mac mini..I will break them.

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:50:55 +0000

Now, before DB goes all "VMWare blah blah blah", this is between me and Chris. How far did you get installing gOS? I got to the boot screen and when it would try to start GUI mode it would error six times before quitting. Did you get any further? I've gotten Ubuntu running in Parallels, but I haven't installed (nor used it, really) since Feisty. What I want is to install it on a separate partition on my MacBook, but until Ubuntu stops sucking on the MacBook Pro I'm not bothering.

And yes, DB, as soon as my free updates to Parallels gives out, I'll switch to VMWare.

By: chris

chris — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:56:37 +0000

I think one of the biggest revelations Windows users have is "what, there's no start button?" Once you get over that it tends to be a little easier.. the one thing that I can't stand is the inconsistency of the minimize/maximize buttons on osx windows (db- i think you've commented on this as well).

Also, I've tried twice to install gOS and ubuntu via parallels..no luck thus far...I'm determined though!