My new laptop is up and running

This is the first post I am writing with my new laptop. After unpacking, installing a new, larger and faster hard drive & increasing the ram all that was left to do was to re-install the operating system. Naturally that was the easy part (pictures here).

What to do with a new laptop?

The rest of the day was spent on an installing fest… All the large and small programs that make up a basic functioning computer. This is then followed by the really high intensive work of fine tuning the software to make it feel right at home. You know the kind of thing, adding bookmarks, arranging themes, transferring files. Time consuming but necessary work.

Late night project

Last night I decided to install Ubuntu (HardyHeron) on an old mac as a small side project naturally any such experiment is only carried out under the delusion that “this will be easy”. The actual installation went quite well with only a few minor hitches – all solveable.

The rest of the night, and a long night it became, was spent adjusting, fixing, adapting and tweaking the new system. The main annoyances that still remain are the reactrion times on the keyboard and that the short commands are not installed in the way that I like them yet. Not to mention all the programs (and their settings) that I rely on still need to be installed.

But so far it’s looking good. I wonder if this may be the switch? My last times with GNU-Linux were just explorations.