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Needed my Windows 10 vm for parallax propeller development again. Should be pretty straightforward:

Start VM. Very unresponsive and Interface glitches with 2GB RAM so I give it 4GB to get on the desktop. Bruh, off to a good start.

Turns out that there are a few updates. So I try to install them. After two fucking hours Virtualbox screams at me for being out of storage. FFS Window$ updates managed to take up like 20GB extra.

Had to install it from scratch since my drive is full. Now my key won't activate because it is already activated. 15min support hotline, because 6*8 characters are necessary for a f*cking Phone activation.

Damage assessment:
1h of my life I will never get back, a barely viable operating system and I'm not even sure if USB passthrough works.

PSA:Gnome-Boxen has a superb unattended installer.

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  • 2
    5y
    If you use VirtualBox:

    Update to 6.0.12.
    Interface glitching was fixed there.
  • 1
    5y
    @kescherRant Nice, thanks
  • 0
    5y
    @Nanos Yeah, using Linux as my daily driver for two years I got to know a few rough corners. But the reason I don't rant about linux is that easy things are easy to do and complex things are harder.

    Like writing an image on a SD card. The preinstalled gnome-disks partition manager has an imaging tool.

    Or reading USB Sticks with multiple partitions.

    Library management in c/c++. Everything is done via the package manager and therefore it's one command.

    I don't have a problem with a hard problem needing effort to resolve, but an easy problem being hard to resolve.
  • 1
    5y
    @Nanos Atleast you can solve a problem in Linux in case you face one. Windows sometime goes nope. Can't solve this error. Never will. Would have to reset your Windows. I haven't had such a huge problem with Linux ever.
  • 0
    5y
    @Nanos what wifi card are you using and what's your distro?
  • 0
    5y
    @Nanos Ok, I shortly glazed over the docs for Picroft (https://mycroft.ai/documentation/...) and found a few things:
    1. Raspberry Pi (1, I guess?) B+ is not officially supported
    2. Wifi is not officially supported and not at all on 5ghz

    It would be probably easier to use something like raspbian. Also knowing the model number of the wifi adapter would be helpful, since some manufacturers (broadcom) don't have in kernel drivers.
  • 0
    5y
    @Nanos Incompatible hardware I guess.

    The trick is to use compatible hardware ;P
  • 0
    5y
    @Nanos I think you're right with your guess about the MAC addresses. Both connections need to have a different IP as they have different MAC addresses.
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