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imagoon said:
I agree with you. Pretty much annually I'll grab distros normally ones I see mentioned in these threads and then try and install it on a 2-3 year old Dell to give it the highest chance of having drivers. Ill then update it and use whatever tools are on it.

I have yet to have an instance where everything worked out of the box. I am not against downloading drivers since I have to do that for Windows but even after that there is always some odd issue that results in me ending up on random web forums with 1/2 fixed solutions.

IE just getting it installed I have wasted time. Even though the distro is "free" it ends up costing more to just get it working right if at all. Free ends up costing more than a Windows license.
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Let me jump on this train! I went through hell trying to find working wifi drivers for my 4-5 year old Dell laptop, and drivers for my canon all in one printer. Yeah, I got both working eventually, but it took hours to do so. I'm on Mint now, but tried Ubuntu & Zorin too.
 
zir_blazer said:
I use Xen as Hypervisor, not VMWare.

I'm also extremely interesed in a method to attach a VM in fullscreen mode to a tty so I could change the focus from one VM to another using Ctrl + Alt + Fx, like you want too. Would GREATLY improve usefulness. It should be possible, don't see any reason why not, but requires some more configuration which I didn't researched about. In any case, a solution like that should be your best bet, as you step into Linux while simultaneously running Windows, so you don't lose functionality.
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That's not possible because when you mix Linux and Windows and other 10000000s of OS, they would have all different implementations. The only way possible would be to implement a common standard for this, which I do not see in the future.

The only way possible I see this is some sort of IPKVM implementation but even then I see it highly unlikely.
 
Call me old fashioned, but isn't setting up Active Directory authentication in Linux still a pain in the ass? The user mapping configuration looks like a nightmare to maintain.
 
ultimatebob said:
Call me old fashioned, but isn't setting up Active Directory authentication in Linux still a pain in the ass? The user mapping configuration looks like a nightmare to maintain.
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Its gotten WAY better than before. Samba (more so version 4) really make easy.

Its not butter like Windows but hey, you know what you are doing 😉
 
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