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I don't know why Linux programs have to be so unintuitive. Trying to use Librecad and it's freaking terrible. you can't type dimensions directly, line draw order is all messed up, like dimension lines go on top of actual drawing lines, WTF? Such simple stuff that should be done better but isin't.

I can't get VirtualBox to work so I can use AutoCAD 2000.
 
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Red Squirrel said:
I don't know why Linux programs have to be so unintuitive. Trying to use Librecad and it's freaking terrible. you can't type dimensions directly, line draw order is all messed up, like dimension lines go on top of actual drawing lines, WTF? Such simple stuff that should be done better but isin't.

I can't get VirtualBox to work so I can use AutoCAD 2000.
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Should have ran your linux under esxi or hyperv :awe:
 
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sdifox said:
Should have ran your linux under esxi or hyperv :awe:
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The whole point of running Linux is to not be dependent on windows. If I'm going to run Windows as my main workstation only to run a Linux VM I may as well just run everything in Windows again. Windows 8/10 is too ugly and terrible for me to want to do that. And how would ESXi help, this is a workstation - need to physically access the machine to use it. I already have a ESXi server, but that's to run background servers not a workstation. (yes I know you can do thin client, but that's basically just a RDP session into a server, I don't really want to do that for my main machine) No matter what you need some level of bare metal OS to actually use a computer.
 
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The whole point of running Linux is to not be dependent on windows. If I'm going to run Windows as my main workstation only to run a Linux VM I may as well just run everything in Windows again. Windows 8/10 is too ugly and terrible for me to want to do that. And how would ESXi help, this is a workstation - need to physically access the machine to use it. I already have a ESXi server, but that's to run background servers not a workstation. (yes I know you can do thin client, but that's basically just a RDP session into a server, I don't really want to do that for my main machine) No matter what you need some level of bare metal OS to actually use a computer.
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How is full screen rdp to a box sitting next to you any different than a desktop?
 
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sdifox said:
How is full screen rdp to a box sitting next to you any different than a desktop?
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256 colors, latency etc. It's decent over gig, but still not the same as native. you're not watching a 1080p video on that, for example. I rather run workstation natively. Background stuff that's just command line, sure. I have like 10ish VMs running on my ESXi server, but I also don't need to "sit down" at those machines and use them directly. It's all text based stuff. There's a couple Windows boxes I RDP to for management purposes, but speed/graphics is not that important.

Once I can get virtualbox to work, then I'll run the windows stuff in seamless mode in Linux. Though I technically could setup some kind of Citrix like server, I wonder if there are free options for that. I'm willing to sacrifice some performance and RDP/VNC windows stuff, but in general I prefer to run stuff natively and have my main OS be Linux.
 
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