What magnitude of performance penalty would you typically expect in a virtual box? The application that would be most problematic for me to move away from windows is our CAD package - which is easily the most resource intense application we use and drives most hardware selection conversations. If we were to virtualize that ... Would I need yet _more_ powerful workstations? -Denny On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Peter Loron wrote: > Some Windows apps can be gotten to work well using Wine. Woth a try. I > generally recommend that folks who need to do things in Windows set up a > Windows VM on their Linux machines. VirtualBox is a free cross platform V= M > tool which works pretty well. > > -Pete > > On 6/25/16, 15:17, "Gordon Williams" of gwilliams@ncf.ca> wrote: > > I also use Linux Mint (since W2000 got too difficult to use). LT Spice, > a windows only program, can be run using Wine. Quite cool. I also use > Eagle and QCad. > > Gordon Williams > > > > > On 16-06-25 03:44 AM, Chris Roper wrote: > >>> Recommendations for getting started (with Linux)? > > If you are moving users from a Windows Environment take a look at Linux > > Mint. > > It is based on the Ubuntu Code base so is well supported and has a nice > > simple Windows Like Interface. > > > > I tried several and settled on Mint. > > > > > >> -- > >> http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > >> View/change your membership options at > >> http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > >> > > -- > http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > > > > > -- > http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > --=20 http://www.piclist.com/techref/piclist PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .