It has been a long time since I posted a new Bucket Weekly. It has been extremely busy lately which left me with virtually no time at all.
Xubuntu
I did the ultimate sacrifice by giving my laptop to my wife and take her old desktop PC which is older than Betty White. Windows XP was installed on it and it was sluggish. I decided to install Xubuntu on it so I could use it. I use Thunderbird as my e-mail client and Open Office and both are available on (Linux) Xubuntu. I got it all up and running and I have to say I am really impressed. It is not running at super speed but it is really workable. It is up and running in no time and shutting down is no difference which could not be said from Windows XP.
RetroGaming Radio
So what have I been up to? I am trying to catch up with all the episodes of RetroGaming Radio. It started again in August 2011(after a long break) and I have a lot of shows to catch up with. If you never listened to the show I urge you, no beg you, to start listen to it. Shane R. Monroe really makes the show.
Passenger Seat Radio
Being such a fan of Shane I also listen to his other creation Passenger Seat Radio. Just listen to a few episodes and you are going to love it. A new episode is finally out which I am going to listen to later this afternoon. Just a quick round-up on what I have been doing for this weeks column.
Hi mate,
Good to see that you’re back in action again!
Xubuntu sounds impressive.No doubt that alternative operating systems can bring new life to ageing systems.
I’m going to have a listen to the Passenger Seat Radio. Thanks for the heads-up!
Thanks. Xubuntu is still running great on my PC. I am really pleased.
I use xfce on my Linux Mint as well (this is T60
Don’t you find xfce a little bit behind in terms of appearance? There is something “not right” in the standard themes…
You got a point with xfce but it just does the job on low end hardware. For some reason Linux Mint won´t install on my desktop. But I am happy with Xubuntu. I even consider getting a non Windows device (without the license) in the future and just keep running with Linux. I always stuck to Windows due to the software I am using but now I am using only open source software that is available on several platforms.
I hear you. It does its job, and that is great. I am a Linux user both privately and on corporate laptop, and literally there is only one application I am forced to use a hosted (KVM) Windows 7 for. Luckily its no more than few times a week. Unfortunately however, the corporate world is changing Linux distros to hogs. And it is changing the user experience a lot. To worse.
I agree. That was the reason I stopped using it for some time. I started in the mid nineties with Red Hat which was really great to work with. I even bought Suse but for me it became sort of mainstream with all the other distros.
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Cheers!