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From: "Nico Schümann" <nico.schuemann@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] <OT>: [OT: JOKE]virtual Windows solution...
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 11:24:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1f05046e0607140224k7a40edd6sad110079c5bafed9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44B6D9DB.4080502@ilievnet.com>

2006/7/14, Daniel Iliev <danny@ilievnet.com>:
> Linux can run trash even now. The funniest thing is that *trashers*
> don't know it and they think windows is irreplaceable for great many
> programs but that's not true...at least not any more.

And so I don't use windows. The only thing I miss is the perfect ICQ
client. GAIM is nice, but I'm a bit tired of the away message issue.
They just don't get it work. Kopete, well, they have a broken file
transfer thing. And file transfers are more important for me than just
showing people a bit of text. And I like CenterICQ. I have a linux box
(I have tree linux boxes - all my boxes run linux (you know, I can't
stand windows) except my notebook, but the ACPI support just sucks. I
know, Linus. The ACPI designers are monkeys on drugs. We all know.)
which I want to connect to wherever I am. And I want to run ICQ
wherever I am. And I can't install VNC clients or nx-clients wherever
I am. So I just run ssh or PuTTY. And it works. I just miss things
like file transfers.

> One of the most popular false beliefs is "linux can't run games".

I don't play computer games. But if someone sais this (and this
happens from time to time), I run Nexuiz or Quake4-Demo or stuff. And
everytime I show people: "Hey, you don't need windows to play games.
And you see, this is an old box (PIII, 550MHz; AMD, 800MHz) which just
runs this games without any problems". And then they are a bit
impressed.

Another thing:
My scanner is connected to my father's computer. I personally don't
have a scanner and I don't need it. Well, I scanned a picture with
highest quality, which resulted in a 20MiB JPEG. I tried twice to open
it with Windows (2,6GHz, 1GB RAM) and both times the machine just
crashed. Then I went to my linux box, ran GIMP and everything was
fine. And actually, GIMP used 30% of my RAM.
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  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-14  9:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-13 15:35 [gentoo-user] <OT>: virtual Windows solution Jarry
2006-07-13 16:31 ` Richard Fish
2006-07-13 17:05   ` Daniel Iliev
2006-07-13 18:16     ` Peter Ruskin
2006-07-13 18:34       ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-07-14  1:52       ` Anthony E. Caudel
2006-07-13 18:38     ` Alexander Skwar
2006-07-13 19:30       ` Jarry
2006-07-13 20:43         ` Alexander Skwar
2006-07-13 17:36 ` Rumen Yotov
2006-07-13 21:50 ` [gentoo-user] <OT>: [OT: JOKE]virtual " Daniel Iliev
     [not found]   ` <1f05046e0607131538h4fb83e6fx76e768c5bcc95fdd@mail.gmail.com>
2006-07-13 23:40     ` Daniel Iliev
2006-07-14  9:24       ` Nico Schümann [this message]
2006-07-14 10:50         ` jarry
2006-07-14 13:25         ` [gentoo-user] <OT>: [OT: ICQ] Todor Pirov
2006-07-27 12:35   ` [gentoo-user] <OT>: [OT: JOKE]virtual Windows solution Enrico Weigelt

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