I officially encountered my first "problem" last night. I was too wiped out by that point to talk about it here, so now that it's morning and I'm awake (ha!) I'll go ahead and post it.
To put it simply: rFactor and Linux aren't playing together very well.
Monday, February 28, 2011
Sunday, February 27, 2011
A long day's work
The day is winding down, and in between family commitments I've managed to get my computer to a pretty functional level. It took longer than I thought it would, but then I suppose that's just how it is when you're working on a computer.
Progress Report
The dual boot setup is now complete. Though I have yet to go back and pick up drivers for the Win7 install, everything is working.
I'm typing this from Ubuntu - the install process was as smooth as I figured it would be. The only driver I needed was the proprietary driver for the video card. Everything else, including wireless, worked right away.
Once updates were installed and drivers sorted, I went to Ninite (http://www.ninite.com/linux) to pick up installs of things like Chrome, Flash, GIMP, and a couple other things.
Following that I dumped OpenOffice and went with LibreOffice (as shown here: http://drupal.txwikinger.me.uk/content/libreoffice-now-available-ppa-ubuntu-1010-and-1004 ) because of native support for Office 2007 files.
From here - putting backed up files back onto the machine, and then getting into game installs.
I'm typing this from Ubuntu - the install process was as smooth as I figured it would be. The only driver I needed was the proprietary driver for the video card. Everything else, including wireless, worked right away.
Once updates were installed and drivers sorted, I went to Ninite (http://www.ninite.com/linux) to pick up installs of things like Chrome, Flash, GIMP, and a couple other things.
Following that I dumped OpenOffice and went with LibreOffice (as shown here: http://drupal.txwikinger.me.uk/content/libreoffice-now-available-ppa-ubuntu-1010-and-1004 ) because of native support for Office 2007 files.
From here - putting backed up files back onto the machine, and then getting into game installs.
Data backup complete, the install begins
I've completed my data backup and will be doing the install today. My plan is a three partition drive - one for each OS and a third NTFS to share between them as storage.
More to come...
More to come...
Friday, February 25, 2011
Hello world
I'd like to pretend that I'm doing something important here; something that will cause people to stand up and take notice of...well, whatever.
But, as you can plainly see, that's not what I'm doing.
I've started this blog in order to chronicle my switch from Windows to Linux as my primary desktop operating system at home. I've been a Windows user since 1996, when I was first introduced to Windows 3.1 - previously, all my computer experience had been with IBM DOS machines, the Apple IIe, and the classic Commodore 64 (admittedly, that's going back quite a way).
Switching from one operating system to another doesn't really sound like a big deal, and in my case it isn't. I work in IT; I'm a desktop support technician at a college. I have an A+, I have some Microsoft certification, I have some experience. I can handle Linux, right?
But, as you can plainly see, that's not what I'm doing.
I've started this blog in order to chronicle my switch from Windows to Linux as my primary desktop operating system at home. I've been a Windows user since 1996, when I was first introduced to Windows 3.1 - previously, all my computer experience had been with IBM DOS machines, the Apple IIe, and the classic Commodore 64 (admittedly, that's going back quite a way).
Switching from one operating system to another doesn't really sound like a big deal, and in my case it isn't. I work in IT; I'm a desktop support technician at a college. I have an A+, I have some Microsoft certification, I have some experience. I can handle Linux, right?
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