[TriLUG] More on the dual boot problem

Mauricio Tavares via TriLUG trilug at trilug.org
Thu Aug 29 04:23:20 EDT 2024


On Tue, Aug 27, 2024 at 2:02 PM Dwain Sims via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> Pardon me if I have told this story before.
>
> When I started at SUSE in 2018 I was happy living with my Linux desktop (a
> well equipped Dell laptop) and all was mostly well.  Except for the odd
> occasional conference calls I had to join.  Several of the systems were not
> consistently Linux friendly.  So I went down the dual boot route -- too
> slow and cumbersome.  And I tried a Windows VM  - not a consistent winner
> there either.  And after several embarrassing fails, I said to myself one
> day, I know how to solve this.  So on the next trip to Costco I came home
> with a very nice X1 Carbon.  To this day, it sits on the corner of my desk
> ready to be my Plan B if something comes up that I can't make submit under
> Linux.  It has also done my taxes for the past several years as well.
> Problem solved for around 1000 bucks (and I could have done it for less,
> but I wanted something nice!)
>
> Dwain
>
      I have sometime to make Zoom calls.The Mac recognizes my
blue(green)screen while my Linux box does not. Both use the very same
logitech camera. Best I got in Linux was one day it worked. Most of
the time it decides my face is the greenscreen.


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