Funky

So, after boiling and toiling for a while, I finally made a decision.

OK, I reinstalled Fuduntu on the T400 first, then I made a decision. I decided to try out Kubuntu 13.04.

Oh, I did do a quick check of the Fuduntu repositories. Dead as a door knob. So...

Somewhere in my pile of burn-then-forget CDs and DVDs, I found a copy of Kubuntu Raring Ringtail. Off to the races we go!

The installation is, of course, Ubuntu-like. Very slick, very complete. Took a bit longer than I've become used to, but once it's done...

Wow. I've never used Kde, nor Plasma, before. It's...uhm... different. Very different. In fact, it's kind of like relearning the computer again. Took me a second or so to get oriented. Finding out where everything is took some time. But things seem to work OK. It's a wee bit sluggish, but... Everything works. That's a plus. And a blessing, after all the fighting with OS's I've been forced to do as of late.

I'm not overly sure about Rekonq as a web browser. It seems to work OK, but I'm such a FireFox drudge... Haven't played with Dolphin, but it seems quite competent a file manager. LibreOffice is LibreOffice, and I quite like it, so we're good there. I really can't say on anything else.

Right now, I'm considering this installation experimental. My thoughts are to transfer Kubuntu over to the Dell XPS, and install Lubuntu 13.04 on this system. (Yeah, I have a burned copy of it, too.) I still haven't worked myself up (are you ready for this?) to remove Windows 7 from the Dell. (?!!?) Of course, I haven't even tried a live boot on the Dell yet.

I've been running PhatSlacko5.5 off of my old PNY thumbdrive on the Dell, which has worked great. I may try my thumb install of Saluki later on, just to see how it does. If all goes well there, I'll give it a run with MacPup and Upup Raring.

And I'm actually considering doing a 16 GB thumb drive install of Lighthouse 64, just to play with it. I know that'll be a shock to some, given my ranting about it, but it is an interesting system, and I think it needs to be experimented with more. Just not installed on a hard drive. (And I want freedom to modify, which I can't really do on the CD.) I'm also going to set up a thumb drive with FatDog64, as an alternate OS for the 64 bit systems.

Oh, and as a side note, I'm actually typing this entry in LibreWrite on the T400, while sitting in my local library. I wanted to do some testing of the wireless setup in Kubuntu, to make sure it did handle various wireless setups correctly and easily. So far, so good. I'll probably swing by the office later on, test it there. (That's one I really do want it to work on.)

So, now, let me see about copying and pasting into the web browser...

Yep, guess it works...   ;-)