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[darkemeralds]

It took the better part of eight hours, but I'm now the curious and interested owner of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, "Precise Pangolin" (the P entry in Linux's longstanding alphabetical animal naming scheme--my previous O/S was Lucid Lynx so I've skipped M, N and O), and my backups are restoring now. The microphone and recording problems are fixed! Everything works again! \o/

The new operating system takes some getting used to, but it's extremely good-looking and quite fast. There's really very little left in Ubuntu that's uber-geeky (though I did have to do a couple of command-line operations this afternoon), and for the first time I can imagine Linux as an OS for everyday home computer users.

Now to treat myself to an episode of Lewis (thank you, emungere, for tempting me into it--because I needed another show to watch!).

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Lewis

[cattraine.livejournal.com]

Is a wonderful show! Dira and Lamardeuse have some great fic at Ao3.

[executrix]

Now I'm envisioning an animated GIF is a caption of "takes some getting used to, but it's extremely good-looking and quite fast" with the relevant fannish images.

[emungere]

Yay Lewis! For a show all about murders, it's really completely adorable. And strangely soothing.

[darkemeralds]

I've now watched the first episode, and I really enjoyed it. You're right--it is strangely soothing for a story in which an unlikely number of murders are constantly occurring in an idyllic university setting!

[vampirefan]

yay! i was a bit nervous for you, so it's great to hear that your upgrade worked! (was there a fix for the blu-ray player?)

[darkemeralds]

I haven't even tried the optical drive yet--I'm too busy gnashing my teeth over the stupid failure of .avi files. :(

[ranunculus]

I've switched to Mageia, which I LOVE. I'm a K desktop user, and while K works ok in Ubuntu it works well on Mageia. This is an offspring of the old Mandrake now gone community. Just as easy to install, also with some issues around sound.

Sorry about the link to Libre, it is a reflexive action when someone says the words "reload". Duh.

[darkemeralds]

Slow reply, but THANK YOU for the suggestion of Mageia. I had never even heard of it, and had to look it up. I'm going to learn a bit more and see if I can trial-run it off a CD. I imagine I'll be reporting back.

[ranunculus]

I started out with Mandrake a LONG time ago. Got very comfy with all its oddities. Not much recognizable in Mageia, but I still like the feel of the distro. In Ubuntu I never quite got the hang of exactly how to get to some of the settings. Part of it is that I don't do command line, though Donald does.

We started by using a disc, took a few minutes to figure out how to make it actually load permanently on the machine!

[kis]

I'm still clinging to the narwhal.

[darkemeralds]

I may be rolling back to Narwhal any day now if the Pangolin crew doesn't get together with some quick updates that fix my video-playing issues (to wit: I can't play .avi files at all).

[kis]

Mr Kis shuddered when I told him you'd upgraded. "But it's still in beta!"

You are a trail-blazer!

[darkemeralds]

If by "trail-blazer" you mean "insane" then yeah.

[tehomet]

It took the better part of eight hours, but I'm now the curious and interested owner of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, "Precise Pangolin"

You have nerves of steel! Congrats on getting it all sorted.

emungere and suzvoy got me into Lewis too. I blame/thank them. :)

Ooh, have you seen suzvoy's Lewis pimp-posts? I can link you if you like.

[darkemeralds]

Oh, links please!

And...it was premature to claim success with the Ubuntu reinstall. It's working...sort of. But it's buggy and beta and I'm not sure I like it. Does this mean I have the will to fix it? Nope. I'll probably just live with the problems till the vast worldwide Linux community fixes all the problems--which they're doing at a rate of approximately 200 updates a day. Really. There were 224 today.

[tehomet]

God, open source is fab. :D

suzvoy's Lewis posts of note: One, Two, Three, and Four. Also a little post about the adorableness of James Hathaway, for the craic.

Please mind the spoiler warnings/mentions of episodes in headers as I don't know where you are in the series by now. Hope you enjoy them.

[darkemeralds]

Thank you! She's hilarious and adorable.

[pinesandmaples]

for the first time I can imagine Linux as an OS for everyday home computer users.

I have been waiting and hoping for this statement to be issued by a user like you for years.

Also, pangolins are odd looking little things, aren't they?

[darkemeralds]

Precise is definitely not ready for pimretime. I'd caution any newcomer to Ubuntu against installing it yet. It's in beta and it's still unacceptably buggy. I'm probably going to go backwards to Natty.

I understand that Natty, aka version 11.04, is quite stable, and that's where most of the user-friendliest new features were introduced (so that Ubuntu looks and acts more like Windows 7 and MacOS X).

I think Precise has a ton of promise, but I was hasty in installing it. I wanted a Long Term Service version that would be supported for the remaining life of my laptop, and Precise was it, but I'd have been better off installing Natty and then upgrading again in another year, when Precise is more.. you know, precise.

I had to look up pangolin. Yes, strange little critters. Stranger than narwhals, but not as unlikely as jackalopes.