New graphics card
Well, I'm updating from the family laptop. I suck at writing on a laptop keyboard so please excuse any typos. Orasi bought a new computer and I got his old graphics card. We had trouble fitting it in cause it's twice as wide as my last one, had to cut pieces from the case and the card's backslot to fit it in. Ubuntu is having some kind of drivers problem with it because videos go with douple speed and with no sound. It's going to be difficult to fix. I've never installed any drivers on any of my Linux systems. Either hardware works (Linux installs drivers automatically), or the hardware won't work as nobody has written a driver for it. Since graphics work normally, except for videos, it must mean that there's a driver installed, but there's some kind of problem with it. Maybe it needs some reconfiguring. I just don't know how to do that without some proper instructions.
I've been hoping that I could install Windows again and start playing games again, but first I want to buy a new hard drive, and then I need to figure out how to dual-boot with Linux installed first. Windows messes up the grub when it installs and thus Linux won't start up. I'd need to fix grub to get Linux working again. It's much easier to install Windows first and Linux after that. I just don't feel like reinstalling Ubuntu when it's working just fine.
BTW, I don't recall any of my Linux installs ever had such bad problems that they just stopped working all together, while it's happened to most of my Windows installs, the last one included.
I'm baking another cake. This is now the fourth cake that I've baked in a months time. It's starting to feel like routine. It's also much easier when I'm not tired, like last time. I made stupid mistakes because I was too tired. I should probably get back to baking. It's almost ready.
How do people type on a laptop without addidentally hitting the mouse pad? I'm finding that quite impossible to accomplish. The mouse is jumping all over the text when I'm typing.
I've been hoping that I could install Windows again and start playing games again, but first I want to buy a new hard drive, and then I need to figure out how to dual-boot with Linux installed first. Windows messes up the grub when it installs and thus Linux won't start up. I'd need to fix grub to get Linux working again. It's much easier to install Windows first and Linux after that. I just don't feel like reinstalling Ubuntu when it's working just fine.
BTW, I don't recall any of my Linux installs ever had such bad problems that they just stopped working all together, while it's happened to most of my Windows installs, the last one included.
I'm baking another cake. This is now the fourth cake that I've baked in a months time. It's starting to feel like routine. It's also much easier when I'm not tired, like last time. I made stupid mistakes because I was too tired. I should probably get back to baking. It's almost ready.
How do people type on a laptop without addidentally hitting the mouse pad? I'm finding that quite impossible to accomplish. The mouse is jumping all over the text when I'm typing.