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Originally Posted by C_steam
I fancy moving to ubuntu but not knowing much about it am loathe to leave windoze. How much of a pain is it and how steep a learning curve?
The other thing is that I use MS access a lot and write apps in it using VB. I'd want to keep a windows emulator capable of running access and VB. thoughts?
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It can be a pain depending on your hardware, but that's greatly improved nowadays.
As for the learning curve... if you've been raised on Windows and not actually tried exploring computing concepts then probably quite high. However, if you're able to use database software and VB, however despised it is
, you should be fine.
There are several compatibility layers which provide the Windows APIs and thus allow many Windows programs to run on Linux, but they're not perfect; by far the best solution in terms of getting things to work is either a dual-boot machine or, and this I would recommend unless you have a desperate need for performance, a virtual machine running Windows inside.
I used the latter solution for my MS Access ICT coursework recently (even slipped in a screenshot during the testing stage showing that it was Windows in a virtual machine, and that the virtual machine was called 'Windoze'
) and now I just use the virtual machine for running Age of Empires I occasionally.