Minty

Well, the battery for the T61 arrived today.  No problems noted so far.  Everything seems to be working fine.  (Though it's a bit larger than the extended battery I had in the system.  Hopefully more cells, more charge...)

The bigger news:  In a wild hair moment, I decided to test Mint on the X60s.  A live boot test showed no problems, so I went nuts, nuked XP and Lubuntu off the system, and did a Mint 13 install.  So far, everything has been working fine.  I'm using the system right now, and I can't complain in the least.

I rather like Mint.  I went with the Mate interface over Cinnamon simply for convenience.  I didn't want to burn another DVD.  Mate was what I had available, so...

If I remember correctly, Mint installs with Flash, so I shouldn't have any problems with YouTube stuff.  And it does have LibreOffice, which I prefer over AbiWord.  The SD card works fine as well, so I now have a total of c.112 GB of storage on the system.  (Minus the c.6 GB for the system install, of course.)  I can handle that.

Silly news:  I stuck a big, orange domed Ubuntu sticker on the lid of the T61.  It covers up the worst part of the scarring on the lid.  (I'd like to know what was on the lid that was so violently removed.  Part of it looks like a name or number of some sort.  The rest...  Maybe a logo of some sort.)

Still ruminating on the Steampunk stuff I was looking at the other day.  I find it fascinating.  However, it's not something that I would dive headlong into.  I could probably scrounge together stuff for costuming and suchlike, but I'm not much into that.  Still, I find the aesthetic very appealing, and the mechanical stuff always fascinated me.  (Even though I have 10 thumbs when it comes to working on anything mechanical.)

Have to put the systems through their paces tonight, doing some more research on the subject.  Looks like I'll have plenty of time, as we have a nice winter storm settling in over us.  And, maybe even worse coming next week.

Oh, the fun of winter...