In which I prove Sherlock uses Linux some of the time.
I'm having a second day sofa surfing as I'm sitting here waiting for a miracle and results of the antibiotic the nice Nurse Practitioner at Yarmouth Walk-in-Centre gave me for my nasty cough. I thought I was about to pull a Benedict Cumberbatch, but no, that hacking was all-too familiar had to be a secondary infection and Bronchitis not Pneumonia. A course of Amoxicylin should do the trick.
So ... I have spent some time drawing maps and collecting screen caps and preparing to do another location post. I was also double checking the Pilot and A Study in Pink to see which streets they used (Cardiff and Swansea for the Pilot, London and London for ASIP) and then I spotted something on the back of the earlier Sherlock's sofa.
I know later on they got quite snazzy and John got a Mac for 221B but the computer in the Pilot Episode is no Window's computer. It's running some sort of Linux, and I can prove it.
I'm typing this post on Mrs Hudson since the demise of Jolinar Laptop. Mrs H is running Xubuntu as her OS and masquerading as a Mac - having a dock is helpful to me as a dyslexic with eye muscle problems. It's all very visible and obvious. Now for that computer on the back of the sofa.
It only took about 1 minute 30 seconds of twiddling with the Desktop in Settings Manager to do a costume change for Mrs H. I didn't even have to change her theme from the nicely dyslexic friendly Thin Ice.
This gives her a light coloured panel at the top and the bottom of the screen and takes the desktop items - the File System icon and a few folders - back to the left where they usually live on the Linux desktop. It looks incredibly like what Sherlock has on the laptop sitting on the back of the sofa. I think Kevin has told me Dr Who has used Ubuntu once or twice too, so who knows? It could be an older version of that or even them using Xubuntu, or XFCE on a desktop for something similar. Those two panels are the giveaway as they are not a Windows thing at all.
p.s When I was watching that scene in ASiP in German ('Eine Studie in Pink' apparently) a 'three patch problem' comes out as "Ein DreiPflaster Problem". Fun!