SH4 on Steam, Running Linux

[Rockin Robbins]

Because Microsloth puts you in a straitjacket, IE always lives on your system. Which is good because a few websites, mostly Microsoft's websites, deal with competition by not supporting it. For instance Windows Update won't run on Firefox.

However there's a great fix, an extension called IETab2, which will open up an IE tab, safely confined within a nice padded Firefox shell....er.....cell. The website thinks it's being accessed by IE, so it acts normally. You don't have to run IE, which runs in a sandbox within Firefox. You win!

The software for Budget Trucks POS system runs on IE only. NOT! It's purposely set up to refuse to run in Firefox or Chrome, but is totally ignorant and happy in an IETab.

Firefox is also available for Linux and runs identically. You can even import your profile from your Windows installation, a good reason not to delete Windows and install Linux on a new disk drive. Of course there's Firefox sync, which does almost the same thing as importing a profile.

Many of the programs we use on Windows are refugees from the higher quality world of Linux: Chrome, Gimp, Firefox, Thunderbird all come from Linux and are ported to Windows. When you move to Linux you will feel at home, not as a visitor to another planet.