What Peter said. I find no end of grief when working with Windows, so I avo= id it where possible. I alternate between Ubuntu and OSX for my primary mac= hines. When I need Windows, I fire up a VM. VMWare is very nice. VirtualBox is also very good and is free. -Pete On Oct 17, 2011, at 10:22 AM, Peter Johansson wrote: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Mark Hanchey w= rote: >=20 >> I can work around most of these, but I was wondering what others are >> doing. Are you staying with an older OS for compatibility or are you >> toughing it out slowly changing to a newer OS ? I am at the point of >> considering going back to xp for my development pc but I hate the idea >> of going to an OS I know will not be supported in the future. Curious >> what others are doing here . >=20 > I went from my first 8-bit PC directly to Unix, and happily avoided > all the stupidity of Windows. I have used many different flavors of > Unix over the years, but for past five years I have been using OS/X > exclusively for desktop use. When I need to run a Windows app, I run > it in a VM. As far as I am concerned, the *only* way to run Windows > is safely locked away inside of a VM. >=20 > I use nLite to build a stripped down Windows XP installer with all of > the updates installed. I then use this to build a base Windows > install. This image is then cloned, and used to build various VMs > tailored to specific projects. This "virgin" image is also archived > so that I can easily get back to a known working state after Windows > chokes itself, which it inevitably does. Fortunately, when using a > Windows Install for specific purposes like this, Windows chokes itself > far less frequently. >=20 > A nice side effect is that it then becomes trivial to move an entire > project and it's associated development environment from one physical > machine to another. >=20 > -p. > --=20 > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .