So, as I mentioned in my last rambling, I bought a new computer. I went with System76, because I felt it was important to buy a machine that was sold as a Linux machine first and foremost. Partially because it meant I knew it wouldn’t take a lot of fussing to get working (and let’s face it, I’m a lazy Linux user, and have been for nearly 13 years now), and partially because I feel it’s very important to vote with my money, and buying a machine that comes with Windows preinstalled is basically a vote for Windows hegemony even if I immediately wipe it and replace it with a flavor of linux.

Now, of course, because I’m the crazy and masochistic sort of Linux user… after I ordered a nice shiny machine that came with a working distro installed on it, all shiny, new, and working perfectly… what do I do with it? I format and reinstall. Granted, part of that was because it didn’t come with /home as its own partition, and part of it was because I thought it would be good to start with an absolutely no bloat distro, instead of just installing the desktop environment I wanted in the default ubuntu install. I had so much fun that first weekend I had my new machine. >.< It took me forever to figure out why I didn’t have a gui preference panel for keyboard stuff (wasn’t installed, yay!), just so I could enable the compose key… because the non gui solution involved preference files that had a lot of other settings I didn’t need to change, and ubuntu based things changed the files I needed to look in to verify that I was copying my current settings… but because ubuntu has a gui solution, it was hard to find command line and preferences based solutions for it when running a derivative without the gui panel. So much fun. And bluetooth still isn’t working the way I want it to. Audio quality was all messed up, and for some reason it didn’t want to pair with the mouse I bought… so I’m stuck usinng the usb dongle I didn’t want to have to use. All that said, I am pretty pleased with the new machine. It’s zippy, has lots of space. It’s lighter than the old machine, bigger screen, number pad. Would have been better if I’d known to leave well enough alone… but what can I say, would I truly be a Linux user if I did? 😁