Doctor John wrote:
> Ben Chambers wrote:
>> And this is me posting from Fedora 8 :)
>> 
>> ....Chambers
>> www.pacificwebguy.com
>> 
> ...and this is me replying from my own LFS build ;-)

And this is me on Kubuntu. So yeah, if anyone wondered where I was: I *just*
installed a newsreader over here. Kubuntu installed on Saturday.

So far, both good and bad stuff happened... I got display corruption on
inactive titlebars since I installed compiz. Worked around by using Emerald
instead of kde-window-decorator. Now I'm happily dragging wobbly windows
around, and got mail in one side of the desktop cube, chat in another,
browser in another (4th currently empty). And the fancy window switchers.

Had to scan some pictures. Plugged scanner in, started up Kooka (installed
by default). Scanner was detected automatically. Pictures scanned.
Installed gimp in a minute, and cropped. That was easier than it is on
Windows (ever seen those scanner/webcam/etc boxes saying "DON'T plug in
before installing the included software"?).

A few hours ago, a friend went online on MSN, I clicked to open a chat
window, planning to brag of how good everything was working on Linux. The X
server died as soon as I clicked (kicking me back to the login screen).
That was kind of ironic...

Yesterday I found myself copying files from a pendrive (which was
auto-mounted as soon as I plugged it in) into my NTFS partition (which was
also mounted automatically) and thought of how much this stuff has
progressed. Minutes ago I copied stuff from the NTFS partition to a samba
share (my sister's WinXP computer), by just typing smb://hostname/ in the
location bar. It didn't use to be this easy :)

To-do:
- Test printer. Figure out how to get it shared on the network. And do it
before my dad wants to print something from his Mac... (or I'd have to boot
into Windows just for that).
- Change KMail and KNode keyboard shortcuts to be *sane* (it looks like a
normal list, but I have to press left/right arrows to move the current
selection up/down, wtf?!).
- Figure out why Alt-F1 isn't opening the K menu, Alt-F2 isn't opening Run
dialog, etc. Probably some strange interaction with Compiz.
- Install Apache, PHP, etc; and move the previously-hosted stuff from the
Windows partition.
- And probably the hardest: in case I never go back to Windows, make sure my
mom can read her email from here :S It wasn't too hard to make her use
Firefox instead of IE, but Windows->Linux *might* be trickier. Especially
considering I still don't even have Flash here.

Fun.

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