I really like Windows 7. Am I fanboy? I hardly think so. I mean…I’ve had Ubuntu installed as my primary OS for 2.5 years only to remove it after my harddrive crashed and decided to give windows 7 a go. You may even hear me talking about wanting to be able to afford a mac. The problem I’m facing is that Windows 7 RC won’t be released until April 10th. Ubuntu 9.04 won’t be released until April 23rd. The beta for Ubuntu 9.04 is still 3 weeks away and I have uni now so my need for Linux is ever increasing.

Okay, if I am a fanboy then I’m a fanboy of non-virtualisation. You may be thinking “What the hell is he talking about? Virtualisation is great!” Don’t get me wrong, stuff like VMWare is great, but it’s just the way that some people use it.

If you want to test an Operating System for fun…use a VM, if you want to create a development environment for testing purposes…use a vm, if you need to isolate multiple servers for whatever crap you’re doing…use a vm. DO NOT use a VM simply because you want to run an application that’s not available natively. If you’re using linux…then use Wine. If you’re using linux simply for the sake of “programming” please shoot yourself in the head. If you’re a developer and you don’t develop in DOT Net you should be using linux by default. If you desperately need to program using linux tools then just use cygwin.

I often see people running VMs on their laptop, the laptop probably has 2 cores, a shitty graphics card and 2gb ram tops, how the hell can they tolerate running Ubuntu in a vm?!

Learn to Dual boot. If you don’t know how to dual boot…using wubi. Don’t know wubi? Google it.

In the mean time, I’ll be using Wubi. No VMs or cygwin.

I also phoned my old workplace and asked them to take me back. If I do get back I’ll have my laptop back :)