Linux, Part 1
So when I came home from work the other day, I found my Windows box was not responding to my efforts to get it to come out of sleep mode. I manually turned on the monitor and noticed it was not getting any signal from the DVI port. Also, the hard drive activity light was solid. Something odd was happening. So I flicked the reset button and was greeted with a harsh beep from the motherboard telling me something was seriously wrong. Looking up the beep error code in the motherboard's manual tells me that it cannot detect any memory. Awesome.
So until I get around to ordering a new set of RAM and plopping it in my Windows box, I'm going to use Linux.
Not only will I use Linux but will put my (hopefully specific) complaints with it here. Starting... now.
1) Can't use my browser. On my Windows box I use Opera, as I have been for the past four years or so. However, with the distribution I run, there is no easy way to install Opera. So I'm stuck with Firefox. It's open source and it's not Internet Explorer, so it's got two things going for it, but it's just slow as hell. Rendering as well as doing simple things like, say, scrolling. I'm sure part of that is to blame for the onboard video I'm using but part of it also stems to Linux's crappy way of handling the video layer. Well, not Linux, but rather the drivers that one should use.
So until I get around to ordering a new set of RAM and plopping it in my Windows box, I'm going to use Linux.
Not only will I use Linux but will put my (hopefully specific) complaints with it here. Starting... now.
1) Can't use my browser. On my Windows box I use Opera, as I have been for the past four years or so. However, with the distribution I run, there is no easy way to install Opera. So I'm stuck with Firefox. It's open source and it's not Internet Explorer, so it's got two things going for it, but it's just slow as hell. Rendering as well as doing simple things like, say, scrolling. I'm sure part of that is to blame for the onboard video I'm using but part of it also stems to Linux's crappy way of handling the video layer. Well, not Linux, but rather the drivers that one should use.