I had a long, rough Friday and no desire to use my computer over the weekend. Except I installed Ubuntu 10.10 and that was a mistake. My excuse was Ubuntu 10.04 crashed suddenly on Thursday night and it messed up all the sound control applets. How it came to such a catastrophe I cannot explain, it literally just black-screened and upon rebooting required me to scan all disks even though it complained about being unable to scan the swap. Ugh ... I wonder if my netbook is beyond being beaten up.
Anyway after installing and updating (300mb of updates!) I figured I'd be good for Monday and didn't turn it back on. Well, the first thing I needed to do this morning was pair my bluetooth keyboard ... ooh, too bad! That ate up nearly an hour of reading, futzing, and approaching no satisfactory conclusion. Thus I left to return my rental and write the aforelinked post on the keyboard issue.
I don't like Ubuntu Unity so far. The bluetooth problem is unrelated to this opinion. Its interface occupies far too much horizontal real estate to be practical on a netbook (of which it's intended for). My EEE 901 has a mere 1024x600 resolution and having about a 100 of those taken up by a jiggly launcher / task bar thing is beyond annoying. On top of my design quibbles (window controls on the left? for shame!), I have dealt often now with unresponsiveness, Unity crashes and restarts (reminiscent of Explorer, way to make Microsoft look good!), and overall sluggishness. I'm seriously considering Lubuntu.
Anyway, Lanturn got nowhere this morning which is depressing and now I have to go to my boring job which is going to be loooong today. Actually, I have a couch surfer coming over sometime tonight so I can't stay too late. Bleh
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