# It feels good to be free. I just Linuxed my first computer. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 23, 2010, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-feels-good-to-be-free-i-just-linuxed-my-first-computer/547761 "2010-07-23T19:55:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-feels-good-to-be-free-i-just-linuxed-my-first-computer/547761/41 "2010-07-25T14:35:53Z")
> [@Unintentionally\_Blank](#): > > From a netbook standpoint, I’ve been playing around with Jolicloud…I f’d up and got an Aspire One with the crappy slow little 8 Gb SSD drive, it’s working VERY well with that handicap. See I tried to change my little netbook gimpy to ubuntu for netbooks [the distro aparently before the lucid one?] following the directions for the usb drive dealio, and gave up in disgust because I tried 8 times to do it and wipe wincrap off the poor little beastie and I could never get wincrap the fuck OFF my netbook. If I wanted to suck up that much drive space with an OS that I wasnt using, I would have wanted to leave that shit on instead of removing it. I followed the remove directions exactly each damned time, and winshit never removed. I gave the damned netbook away and got an eeepc that runs a hell of a lot faster and actually has drive space. I refuse to use any device that literally takes 10 minutes to log in when you first turn it on, and each time I click to read an email takes 5 minutes to load an email. Ghu forbid trying to read something online, it was as bad as waiting for Godot. Only think I was using the beastie for was teamspeak. I needed something I could do emails and web on as well as teamspeak. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-feels-good-to-be-free-i-just-linuxed-my-first-computer/547761/42 "2010-07-25T14:45:22Z")
I’m too cheap to give a $300 8 month old computer away. 😛 The Linux (linpus) OS that came with it was convinceable, but it was like being stuck on the short bus. Ubuntu Netbook Remix and the 10.04 version of netbook remix were GREAT on the Aspire One…jolicloud’s pretty good too, they’ve figured out how to run the OS and do the things you want to do without hitting the HD too much. I’m typing this on an EEEPC and the HD makes all the difference in the world for most other OS’s. (I tried _Desperately_ to replace that goddamned SSD, even went so far as to obtain an iPod HD and a conversion kit, I just couldn’t get all the pieces to mate, and I got the impression the case wouldn’t take yet another disassembly.) ---
**Author:** ![arseNal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@arseNal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/arseNal)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-feels-good-to-be-free-i-just-linuxed-my-first-computer/547761/43 "2010-07-25T14:46:42Z")
> [@Unintentionally\_Blank](#): > > Of course, I forgot, VMware has a FREE vmware viewer product…in XP it only lets you play back pre-made Virtual Machine images, but in Linux (Ubuntu/Redhad/Etc) it also lets you create them. VMware Server for windows lets you create VM’s. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2010, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-feels-good-to-be-free-i-just-linuxed-my-first-computer/547761/44 "2010-07-25T14:50:28Z")
> [@arseNal](#): > > > [@Unintentionally\_Blank](#): > > > > Of course, I forgot, VMware has a FREE vmware viewer product…in XP it only lets you play back pre-made Virtual Machine images, but in Linux (Ubuntu/Redhad/Etc) it also lets you create them. > > VMware Server for windows lets you create VM’s. Yeah, but server’s not free, is it? Player was the free windows version (I’m ready to be proven wrong, my knowledge of their windows OS products is a couple of years out of date)…If you REALLY want a fun time, ESXi is the nifty tool for running VMs. ---
**Author:** ![arseNal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@arseNal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/arseNal)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2010, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-feels-good-to-be-free-i-just-linuxed-my-first-computer/547761/45 "2010-07-26T12:31:24Z")
> [@Unintentionally\_Blank](#): > > > [@arseNal](#): > > > > > [@Unintentionally\_Blank](#): > > > > > > Of course, I forgot, VMware has a FREE vmware viewer product…in XP it only lets you play back pre-made Virtual Machine images, but in Linux (Ubuntu/Redhad/Etc) it also lets you create them. > > > > VMware Server for windows lets you create VM’s. > > Yeah, but server’s not free, is it? Player was the free windows version (I’m ready to be proven wrong, my knowledge of their windows OS products is a couple of years out of date)…If you REALLY want a fun time, ESXi is the nifty tool for running VMs. Server is free. ESXi is good too but Server is much easier to use since it installs on top of the host OS. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/it-feels-good-to-be-free-i-just-linuxed-my-first-computer/547761.md?page=2)