Well I’ve been using #! for about a week now. I’m still enjoying it’s simplicity but the Openbox desktop started to get on my nerves a bit. For that reason I’ve decided to give the Xfce version a try. I could have simply converted my existing installation into a multi-session one but instead I decided to go for a fresh install and I’m glad I did because it gave me another chance to appreciate the installation process.
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For the last 3 or 4 years I’ve been using Ubuntu almost exclusively on the desktop. But recently I’ve been thinking about making a change. The reasons for this are beyond the scope of this post but needless to say I have been in search of a new distro. I only have 1 absolute requirement when choosing a new one, it must be Debian based. I’m a big fan of Apt which in my opinion is unrivaled as a package manager. Read more…
Today I finally got around to fixing my wife’s laptop. It’s a HP Pavilion DV8000 series machine running Windows XP which is about 4 years old. It died about 12 months or so ago and has been hiding under the bed ever since. Read more…
Last week I was browsing the web just trying to catch up with some posts that I’d received through Twitter when I came across this from Allison Randall on the Ubuntu archives.
The main thing that jumped out at me was a reference to something called Quickly. Read more…