Admitting Defeat?
by AndyC on Jan.01, 2009, under Linux
Well after about 18 months running Linux as my primary desktop at home, I finally admitted defeat and swapped back to Windows.
The reinstall wasn’t too painful – the hardware in my PC hadn’t changed significantly so the re-activation was painless. The new graphics card caused some problems – it took about 6 tries to find an Nvidia 6200 driver that worked. But otherwise it’s been fairly smooth, though I still have some bits of re-installation to do – and check all my backups and so on.
So why did I switch back? A couple of reasons.
Firstly there was just far too much hacking around to get basic things working – every kernel upgrade meant an hour messing to get vmware working again, for example.
But most importantly the applications I want to use now has changed significantly since I made the decision to switch. There are a couple of Ham Radio applications – most notably Ham Radio Deluxe and UI-View32 that just don’t work on Linux, and don’t play well under VMware.
I haven’t completely switched back though – I still run a Linux VM for the few things that work better there, and will continue to do so. It works well as a test server environment too – only the VM is exposed to the Internet.
A few more tweaks needed, but the bulk of the work is done at this point.
Sorry, Linus.
1 Comment for this entry
I’m on Facebook, too!
June 2nd, 2009 on 9:16 am
Andy,
I’ve only just noticed ….
The item Admitting Defeat? has been top of your page for ages, and ages, and ages. I knew you had other things to do as well as entertain the wider world via your blog, and you had set a precedent with your ‘Two Months between Entries’ item, so I just thought you were busy in other areas.
The result was that every time I checked your blog and saw the headline Admitting Defeat? I went no further.
Today, for a reason I didn’t note, I saw that there were later entries, but they were off the screen. They are ordered ‘latest at the top’ so it seems that’s your intended natural order.
Did you realise ‘Admitting Defeat?’ was pinned at the top?
It’s not a choice I would make, but it’s your blog
I now realise work hasn’t taken over your life completely, even spotted a bit of Dakar relaxation creeping in there!
Cheers