I’ve recently been playing around with a new-ish distro called Bodhi Linux. It’s a light-weight distro, and since I’m a cheap bastard who likes to spend not much money on underpowered hardware, I like to get the most I can out of my OS. That’s why I use primarily Xubuntu and Lubuntu, and even Puppy [...]
Well, I tried to give Linux Mint another try. This time I tried Linux Mint 13 with Cinnamon, 32 Bit. And I tried it on a computer that I’ve never tried to install Mint on before. The live DVD wouldn’t even boot. So as not to make the downloading and burning of that ISO a [...]
I really tried to like you, Mint. I really like your philosophy, and the fact that you’re moving away from the clone-Apple™ policies of Ubuntu. So I was disappointed when I first tried installing you back in 2008. The “Fluxbox” version I booted with a Live CD on my laptop looked so damn seductive, and [...]
Or some bastardized mishmash of Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 and Windows 98? Actually it’s my writing laptop with a definite oldschool look that gives me a chuckle every time I use it. For the record, this is Xubuntu 12.04. It all started when I was bored and upgrading from Xubuntu 10.04 to 12.04. Contrary [...]
Here’s another nerdy story for you all! Gather around the glow of the CRT, it’s time to get geeky! I recently got a DVD from Jolly Old England (that’s what the country is officially called, I think) because it’s so obscure I couldn’t get it here in Canada. The video is this: Made by these [...]