{"id":187,"date":"2006-07-19T06:44:13","date_gmt":"2006-07-19T13:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2006\/07\/19\/windows-never-looked-so-good\/"},"modified":"2006-07-19T06:44:13","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T13:44:13","slug":"windows-never-looked-so-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/2006\/07\/19\/windows-never-looked-so-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows never looked so GOOD!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my last blog entry I was clear:  Windows had crashed on me for the last time.  I was through with the operating system from Redmond&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Except&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a Microsoft world and I&#8217;m pragmatic enough to understand that there are simply SOME things that can not be done from Linux (device drivers for my all in one printer\/scanner\/fax are non existent for example).  VMWare is invaluable in this regard and while I&#8217;ve raved about it before, I&#8217;ll say it again.  It&#8217;s about the best 150 USD you can spend if you&#8217;re a developer.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; Here&#8217;s how I&#8217;m using Windows that suits me just fine because it&#8217;s a) in VMWare so i only fire it up when need be and b) I&#8217;m using XGL and even Windows looks cool on the side of a 3D cube desktop.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><a title=\"Windows Looks Good\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/windows_looks_good.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Windows Looks Good\" id=\"image186\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/windows_looks_good.thumbnail.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my last blog entry I was clear: Windows had crashed on me for the last time. I was through with the operating system from Redmond&#8230; Except&#8230; It&#8217;s a Microsoft world and I&#8217;m pragmatic enough to understand that there are simply SOME things that can not be done from Linux (device drivers for my all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicholasgoodman.com\/bt\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}