Been there...

Yeah...  Great day...

I've been deciding the OS fate question of the Vaio for some time.

The short answer: Lubuntu 13.04.

But it was a long, twisted, and unhappy road getting here.

I finally decided against any of the Puppy family due to the lack of a Suspend function.  (Yeah, I know there's a workaround, sort of...)  So, I went ahead and grabbed an .iso of Lubuntu, and burned it.

But, then, I got an idea.  (Those of you in the know are cringing right about now.)

In a word...  Linux Lite.  I'd heard good things about it.  It sounded decent, so...  Off I go, downloading and burning a copy of 1.0.6, the latest. So far...

Oops.  Things start to take an ominous turn when I live boot on the Acer desktop.  The keyboard mapping is wonky.  Type a "i" for instance, and you get a "5" instead.  And so on...

Oh, that's no problem, I tell myself.  When I do the install on the Vaio, I'll correct this when I set up the keyboard...

And thus are sad fantasies made of.

Let us just say that Linux Lite 1.0.6 AND 1.0.4 (yeah, I eventually downloaded it, too) do not like the the keyboards on the Acer, nor on the Vaio.  This after fighting with setups and settings and whatever else I could find...

1.0.6 does like the keyboard on my Thinkpad T61, however.  Which does me no good, as I don't want it on the T61!

This has been VERY good for my soul.

So, two perfectly good blank DVDs wasted on an OS that I will probably never use.  Joy.  I am now stuck with Lubuntu, which doesn't really do it for me.

The whine-o-meter is starting to crank...

Though, there was an odd side note to all of this.  While digging out the extra DVD to burn, I came across an unlabeled disk on my desk.  Assuming it was blank, I stuck it in the machine, only to find that it was an .iso burn for GhostBSD.  This triggers some tiny, distant warning bells, but what the hey?  The evening really can't get any worse, so...

After the 10 minute ++ boot up on the T61 (!?!), I finally get to the desktop.  Which is pretty much worthless, as I can't seem to get the system to do anything.  I can't remember what the default password is for root access, and really don't feel like guessing.  And then the damn thing won't shut down.

Yeah...

I want my MacPup...