An Even Briefer Linux Foray
As you can see, I tried Linux again, but this time with xubuntu. As a busy university student, I do appreciate the extra effort that the ubuntu developers made into making this distro desktop friendly. Yes, Ubuntu is desktop friendly, I just like XFCE more. Don’t you agree, with a wallpaper like that and compiz showing all these fancy transparency effects? I even have this awesome workspace switching plugin that prints a really stylish arrow in the middle of the screen. X11 works and uses 1280×800 out of the box, with the proper graphics driver. Sound works out of the box. CPU frequency scaling, controlled by the kernel, works out of the box. The LCD brightness and multimedia keys don’t work, though, so battery life isn’t as good as Vista’s. I’m sure I can correct that if I work hard enough on it, but for now I’m pretty satisfied. I mean, with a desktop like that, you really can’t complain.
Plus, Openoffice.org even reads .docx files!
So if I’m so satisfied with xubuntu (which is taking up ~2GB of space, all the music/pictures are on the Vista partition instead, I’m very satisfied with ntfs-3g, which may I add was included in the default install, why am I saying that this is an ‘even briefer Linux foray’? Well, it’s pretty simple: I’ve got an image of OS X Tiger patched to work on PCs, as you can see in one of my thunar screenshots above. Later!
n.p. Geinoh Yamashirogumi (Akira Symphonic Suite) Tetsuo
