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Installed Mediawiki on my laptop.

... just in time for me to move to a new laptop.

(That's a lie-- I haven't ordered the new laptop yet)
 
Here is the default Ubuntu Kylin desktop. One major difference between this and standard Ubuntu, WPS Office instead of LibreOffice, although it does have LibreOffice Draw.

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Stock weather widget seems somewhat limited, only has Changsha, Beijing and Shanghai. Not found any way to change that.
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Wow, I'm having a Moody Blues experience with my new laptop: Mint 17 KDE installed without a hitch and it appears that everything is working right out of the box... Even the backlit keyboard shortcut!
 
I switched back to Mint from Fedora. My old Acer laptop had a wireless adapter that didn't play well with Mint 17 although 16 was perfect (in that regard ;) ). Moved over to Fedora and didn't have a problem, although i wasn't crazy about it. Picked me up a cheap Dell 3000 (14") that they were selling for $200 ... NEW!. Okay, it's all plastic and not really spec'ed to run Windows 8.1, which is what it ships with. Only one sodimm slot with 2GB and a horrendously slow hard disk, but what do you want for $200? So, one SSD and a 4 GB dimm later, the thing flies with Mint 17 and from off to full desktop, 35 seconds and that includes time for me to type a password. :D
 
I am thinking about getting a new mouse... this bad boy.

It's got all the buttons I want/need, and it's Bluetooth, which is something I've desired for quite some time.

On the downside, it's easily three times the price of my old one, which hasn't died yet...
 
RRRGH.

Pulseaudio is not being friendly to my laptop... I two perfectly good speakers that will not output sound because pulseaudio apparently prefers HDMI.
 
Finally, finally, finally, I got sound to work.

Seriously, I have been chipping away at this for a week; and today I've been going at it since 1630... four freakin' hours almost non-stop, trying this, editing that, reboot again...

I have some pretty strong damn google-fu from my years as a library assistant (pre-internet days, kiddos); and it still took me that long to find the Ubuntu Bug-report (and that was the first place I checked, damnit!) that held the solution.

Meh... I should probably put this in the rant, but they don't care... only you, my Linux friends, really care! [sob]
 
Dngrsone said:
Finally, finally, finally, I got sound to work.

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Meh... I should probably put this in the rant, but they don't care... only you, my Linux friends, really care! [sob]
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So?

What was the fix? Voodoo? NSA black ops code? Really big hammer? Or do we have to wait and read it on Wikileaks? ;)
 
I forgot, at 45RPM you gotta tape a penny on the arm or it won't load. But if ya really wanna impress your friends, mount a mono cartridge in the arm, use a dime instead of a penny, and it will install Windows 3.1.
 
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