Officially a Windows-free Slacker!
 

After bouncing back and forth between multiple distros (mandriva, slackware, debian, fedora), I finally dumped my Windows partition for good. Starting today, on my computer Windows exists only as a virtual machine in VBox.

And it was mostly thanks to all the great help I've been given at LinuxQuestions.org, and here in the slack forum in particular. Couldn't have gotten close to where I am without you guys. Thanks!

Congratulations!

congratulations :)

Well done!!!

Congratulations:)

Praise Bob!

Windows-free? Please dump the Windows inside virtualbox first.

By the way, it is just not possible to dump Windows completely in China, because most of the network services (especially all the online banking system) require us to install some windows-only plugins. Saying that it is more secure with their various plugins. Isn't https secure enough for online banking?

There are some games I still like to play - and they take MS. I reckon the tether may be there still for a while,

Agreed.

HTTPS is not that secure, but then I doubt those plugins running on Window$ are secure either.

Sounds like a self help group, so "My name is samac and I've been Windows free for 10 years ....".

Congratulations but you will still have to use Windows occasionally so keep an old version in the back of the cupboard just in case.

samac

I second that, or third...
 

I had that same thought when I read the original post.

It reminds me how nice life is when __REALLY__ windows free!

Even though I run Virtualbox, I have never run a windows instance in it - it has non-zero, negative value to me, and not even a curiosity factor.

I've still got XP Pro on my laptop, but haven't booted into it for ages. For all I know, it might have died from neglect. And it's definitely going when the next Slack comes out (13.2 or 14.0?). I've dumped XP from VirtualBox too.

Oops! Not Windows free yet. :doh:

HeHe, made the same claim not to long ago when I finally got my daughter to put Linux on her laptop, Slackware of course.

I have one Windows 7 and two Windows XP machines setup in VirtualBox. One of those XP machines is a clone of my daughter's laptop. Having Windows around helps me stay up to date on things in Windows land. Besides there is something cool about running Windows in Slackware. :cool:

I guess the default there is IE, since I went there and visited a netcafe, the only thing available for browsing WAS IE :(. What made matters worse, it wasn't even kept up to date, and had a hard time browsing LQ, let alone any other site (also because the connection was terrible).

I doubt if very many of us are entirely Windows-free. That includes myself, unfortunately: I've got XP on a VM.