---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Andrew Joakimsen <joakimsen@gmail.com> Date: Aug 27, 2008 12:26 PM Subject: Re: [opensuse] Vista on VirtualBox To: Randall R Schulz <rschulz@sonic.net> On 8/27/08, Randall R Schulz <rschulz@sonic.net> wrote:

On Wednesday 27 August 2008 10:02, Andrew Joakimsen wrote:

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On 8/26/08, Randall R Schulz <rschulz@sonic.net> wrote:

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So is Vista practical under virtualization?

Not that I particularly like Vista but is opensuse "practical" without Compiz? Is the "experiance" "bad" without Compiz? I wouldn't say yes to either.

All Linux systems are practical without Compiz. They're extremely practical without a GUI at all.

My point was you can run a Vista system without Aero just as well as you can run a KDE system without Compiz support.

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So what if you don't have pretty transparant graphics and a nice effect when you minimize a window? You sill have UAC and the making of everything that used to be 1-2 mouse clicks away 3-4 mouse clicks away to keep your "experiance" "good" when you run Vista under VirtualBox.

But that's really not my question, which was sincere. I am curious whether Vista is crippled in the absence of a high-end graphics adaptor or whether it degrades / falls back to a usable if less attractive mode when it doesn't have the GPU power to do the fancy stuff.

Vista will run just fine without Aero graphics. By default the theme will be the same "My First PC" theme just without transparency or other visual effects. You can also always set the theme to "Windows Classic" just as you could in Windows XP.

I don't know what UAC is.

UAC is that "technology" that Microsoft designed to intentally annoy users in an attempt to get developers to correctly code their programs to not run as superuser all the time. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/12/AR2008041201... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org