Beginning Linux and Hating Windows
I’m on a 9 year old Compaq desktop while my one year old HP laptop is mid nuke. I’ve been using a dual boot setup on the thing, and I just wasn’t happy with how much space I had allowed for Windows, which I only ever use if I have to. Which is rare.
So, the laptop is in the middle of destroying the previous partition tables to make new ones. Meanwhile, I’m on my first computer ever, and it seems that it may soon be time to retire the old girl.
The system is slooooooow. Every time it trys to process an action, the hard drive sounds like it has broken glass spinning around inside an aluminum can. I think the video card is getting ready to die as well.
I don’t know what’s up with the video card, but it keeps doing some pretty freaky things. I have the brightness turned all the way up, but everything is still too dark, and just try to watch a video. That will make the video card freak out and start flashing all kinds of colors.
For no reason, things just turn plaid.
I’m running Debian Lenny with a custom build KDE setup. It’s the fastest that I’ve ever used. Yes, I know xfce is less resource intensive, and there are other desktops that are faster than KDE as well, but I just don’t care much for the interface. KDE rules.
Here’s a screenshot of my Debian Lenny Custom KDE.
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