Santa will give you presents even if you’re an asshole.
by schwim on Oct.07, 2009, under Software
As an early Christmas present, my lovely wife allowed me to purchase a computer to replace my aging work machine. So I bought a new gaming computer.
Wait a steenking meenoot. I know what you’re thinking. I was supposed to be buying a work computer. Here’s how you too can manage to get a new gaming computer any time you need a work computer.
I purchase the snazziest gaming computer I can afford without making us homeless, then relegate the old gaming machine to work detail. In this case, I’m getting a quad core 2.4 ghz/4mb ram with a 9xxx Nvidia card as a work machine. The new machine is almost identical, but with dual graphics cards.
<insert evil laugh here>
I’ve already burnt the latest iso’s for the distro’s I’m going to try on it. I don’t know what I’ll settle on but I can say that I’m going for ease of use. I don’t think I’ll stick with Dreamlinux this time around. I’m probably either going to go with Mint, Ubu or Fedora. Fedora is comfortably familiar, Ubu is popular enough to have tons of apps and mods available and Mint takes a kitchen sink approach to dirty stuff, which I like.
It will be the first time I’ve ever run linux on a machine from this decade, so I’m understandably excited to see the results.
I’m wondering if any of them will install drivers for the stupid miniviewer that’s built into the case.
October 7th, 2009 on 6:19 pm
I’d look at Mint 7 first. F11 is still in mid-release, so you could still rightfully accuse it of being tinker-ware. Dangermouse’s script largely simplifies fetching the dirty stuff, but the usual collection of vunderbork updates are still lurking on the weekends. And then there’s Pulse Audio. But I try not to think about PA very often. It isn’t good for my blood pressure.
October 7th, 2009 on 11:19 pm
PA is the main reason I dumped Fedora the last time. I live with the undying hope that each new piece of audio hardware will be deemed worthy to emit audio as it should sound through Fedora.
It’s cutting edge, doncha know.