Interesting. I know VMWare is non-free, so it isn't available in Debian. I
don't have X on any of my machines, so Orca currently isn't an option. I
have a Debian unstable and experimental install, but I also get a lot of
errors and couldn't get speech with Gnome, so I gave up on it. I'll have to
start over with a new install one of these days. My main desktop doesn't
have hardware virtualization, so Windows would be very slow in a VM. My
server has KVM and supports hardware virtualization, but I never bothered to
set up a Windows VM because it's primarily a server and I usually don't
access it from the console. I almost always access it with ssh and I don't
think I could use Windows with speech over an ssh connection. I definitely
want to spend several days in Gnome learning Orca, Firefox, Thunderbird,
etc. By the way, there is something you can't do in a Windows VM. That is
installing BIOS updates. Almost all of them require Windows to flash your
BIOS firmware. Obviously, a VM won't work for that.
On 3/23/2013 8:16 AM, Christopher Chaltain wrote:
My set up is a bit different. Currently I'm running Ubuntu on my desktop
system, and I bring Windows up in a virtual machine as necessary. I use
VMware Player since it's GUI is accessible with Orca. This way, I don't have
to reboot to switch between Windows and Linux. I run Linux as my host OS
since that's the OS I spend most of my time in. I used to do it the other
way, but once I got comfortable enough with Linux, I switched them around.
Note, that my desktop system is set up to dual boot between Windows and
Ubuntu, but I haven't booted it into Windows since that first weekend I got
it two years ago. I haven't found there's anything I need to do in Windows I
can't do in a virtual machine.
I also use VMware Player to run newer versions of Ubuntu in a virtual
machine as well. This gives me a chance to check things out before
installing them as my host OS.
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