>>>>I always keep one Ubuntu machine on the side, just to (play a solitaire and gPlanarity and to) keep an eye on development.
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>>>Well it's probably about time for me to look at it again but as usual time is a constraint.
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>>That "on the side" is the right side, i.e. the virtual machine I usually open on the right monitor :).
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>>There's actually one thing I couldn't do in Windows at all, which is a VPN connection to a couple of clients. Nothing worked, whatever I tried. Then from Ubuntu (on a laptop first, but then I sold it and created a virtual machine instead) it just worked in about six clicks.
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>The virtual machine could be on any side, couldn't it?
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>Maybe this is out of date but when I think of Unix I think of a bunch of bearded guys in sandals who love their cryptic command lines.

actually it is not too far off, as Linux is much more graphics oriented than Unix