Posted by Corvus on Aug 16th, 2006
Day Four was relatively uneventful, which is why I didn’t post anything. No major tweaking involved. I played games, mostly, testing things out and ruling out things I didn’t like. I found myself coming back to Sudoku a lot, and that’s a habit I’ll need to control.
Day Five was more eventful. Samba enabled me to connect with the other two PCs in the house, but only one-way. Jerry helped me get their HDD’s “mounted” so I can play MP3s from XMMS rather than Totem (I have no idea why it had to be that way, of course). Then, just a little bit ago, another friend guided me through a source (gasp!) install for a multi-console emulator called Mednafen. Clean, relatively painless, and works perfectly, though a menubar on the window would really be hot for those of us who can’t always remember all the hotkeys.
What I learned in the past two days:
* Not all of the games available through the Add/Remove function in Ubuntu are complete or runnable. Some of them just crash the moment they open, some have functions which work and functions which do not.
* Briquolo is a wonderful Breakout-style game. It even has a Windows port.
* It’s not hard to get access to Windows PCs over a network, but it’s damn near impossible to get them to access Linux. It can be done but Jerry told me even he hasn’t gotten it to work yet.
* Source-compiling doesn’t have to be scary. It’s just tedious. Download, unpack, configure, make, install. DUCMI? Bleh. Sounds obscene. Give me GUI and packages any day.
* I still don’t think of myself as a “Linux guy” yet, but I seem to have stopped thinking of myself as a “Windows guy”. I’m in a weird mental Purgatory.
Day Six will involve reclaiming more things that were lost in my hasty decision to install Ubuntu, and an attempt to salvage more data from the half-dead DVDs I burned in Knoppix.
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