COMPUTER WARS
Living within a very strict budget is most motivating and leads us into many back alleys to find hidden solutions to our sorted challenges.
When two towers each with one meg of ram were running badly, as slow as molasses. I combined the ram in one tower. Not having any sort of windows I tried several different distributions of linux each in turn trying to reach the newest or latest release.
OpenSUSE reached 13.2 but the failure of both Firefox and Chromium to offer viable media players and spotty youtube led me to Ubuntu and the online install for both 14.02 and 15.04. Never before have I had the good fortune of reaching such dizzy heights.
This laptop which is just fine for typing in writer libre office will play youtube and pandora radio but my connection does not buffer very well so I have many breaks in my music.
So I have to dedicate this to writing and be motivated to do so. While the working tower will be used for broadcasting and social media. An other laptop that currently runs openSUSE use yet undetermined.
The late positive development here is that the dual monitor provides me desktop real estate and allows me more room in which to work. The short fall is the browser choices are very limited to my level of expertise. So trying any form of browsing is most ambitious and mostly very unproductive.
The reward is manifold in Ubi 15 my query in the Software Center for browser results in about 50 options at least 10 being web browsers and the rest of all sort of usefull types such as alsa to configure audio and even a dedicated
youtube browser.
I strongly advised you download and burn it making sure to get the live cd so you can enjoy it for yourself. You just will not be installing any of the cool stuff as you will be running in ram.
Living within a very strict budget is most motivating and leads us into many back alleys to find hidden solutions to our sorted challenges.
When two towers each with one meg of ram were running badly, as slow as molasses. I combined the ram in one tower. Not having any sort of windows I tried several different distributions of linux each in turn trying to reach the newest or latest release.
OpenSUSE reached 13.2 but the failure of both Firefox and Chromium to offer viable media players and spotty youtube led me to Ubuntu and the online install for both 14.02 and 15.04. Never before have I had the good fortune of reaching such dizzy heights.
This laptop which is just fine for typing in writer libre office will play youtube and pandora radio but my connection does not buffer very well so I have many breaks in my music.
So I have to dedicate this to writing and be motivated to do so. While the working tower will be used for broadcasting and social media. An other laptop that currently runs openSUSE use yet undetermined.
The late positive development here is that the dual monitor provides me desktop real estate and allows me more room in which to work. The short fall is the browser choices are very limited to my level of expertise. So trying any form of browsing is most ambitious and mostly very unproductive.
The reward is manifold in Ubi 15 my query in the Software Center for browser results in about 50 options at least 10 being web browsers and the rest of all sort of usefull types such as alsa to configure audio and even a dedicated
youtube browser.
I strongly advised you download and burn it making sure to get the live cd so you can enjoy it for yourself. You just will not be installing any of the cool stuff as you will be running in ram.
