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desperance[It is a terrible temptation to the weak-minded, this lolcat habit; and I am weaker-minded than you know.]
But! I have successfully run Linux on the Laptop of Heavenly Perfection!
Not installed it, mind, because I'm still anxious about successfully partitioning the hard drive and setting up a dual-boot without aggravating Sony's systems to the point of collapse. This is probably pointless anxiety, as most of my anxieties are pointless; but Ihas have it regardless, so you may as well watch me nurture it for a while.
But! I downloaded the latest issue of Kubuntu (because KDE is my graphical front-end of choice, in so far as it's the only one I've ever spent any time with) and burned it onto a CD and behold! It works! Without the least hint of trouble, indeed, it works.
It's really not a viable way of working, because running an operating system from a CD is sooo slow and limiting; but I ought now to be able to work up the confidence to go for a full install. And no doubt it will be good for me to be using Ubuntu rather than OpenSuse, because range is always better than specialisation. [*sighs nervously*]
But! I have successfully run Linux on the Laptop of Heavenly Perfection!
Not installed it, mind, because I'm still anxious about successfully partitioning the hard drive and setting up a dual-boot without aggravating Sony's systems to the point of collapse. This is probably pointless anxiety, as most of my anxieties are pointless; but I
But! I downloaded the latest issue of Kubuntu (because KDE is my graphical front-end of choice, in so far as it's the only one I've ever spent any time with) and burned it onto a CD and behold! It works! Without the least hint of trouble, indeed, it works.
It's really not a viable way of working, because running an operating system from a CD is sooo slow and limiting; but I ought now to be able to work up the confidence to go for a full install. And no doubt it will be good for me to be using Ubuntu rather than OpenSuse, because range is always better than specialisation. [*sighs nervously*]