This will be a crappy post because I’m feeling crappy. This is my annual mid-winter allergy season. I’m running a low-grade fever, just enough to have that icky feeling on my skin. My sinuses feel like the Russian Army has been marching around inside in their bare feet. So far, no blockage because I keep doing a saline flush of them. That the flushing brings no real relief from the headache is proof it’s an allergy, because cleaning with a mild antibiotic has no effect, aside from flushing the mucus.
One of my computer ministry clients tried to upgrade Ubuntu 10.04 to 12.04. Disaster. I’ve never had trouble with it, but Ubuntu lied and said it would be easy and everything was fine. They aren’t techies, and we should not expect them to know better. Even though I got it to work as well as it was going to under Ubuntu, they couldn’t figure it out. The new cellphone interface is user-hateful on desktops. The machine in question is too old for Win7, so I put XP on it. That was the original OS. I believe only one other client may still be running Linux.
I’m watching Linux in the rearview mirror, sprinting off in the wrong direction. (I’m no longer allowing people to defend it here, so don’t try. Linux has its place, but not on the desktop.)
At any rate, the client in question is petty happy with the tweaked version of XP I put on the machine.
Meanwhile, I’ve decided to fold my OT History study into the Ancient Truth series. I’ve gotten through the Period of Judges (37 out of 103 lessons).
And the world here is going crazy and you won’t see it on the news.
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I read you won’t allow anyone to defend Linux, so I won’t (as a whole). But, I would like to mention Lubuntu; Ubuntu “light” with the LXDE Desktop. It’s similar to Windows XP and runs fast on older hardware. We’ve recycled and freely given away well over a hundred “worn” computers so far for witnessing and discipleship. We did use our own respin of Ubuntu 10.04, but we now use the C4C Lubuntu (12.10) ReSpin. LibreOffice, VLC, Christian teachings, videos, music, games all come included in the iso and it’s an easy install via DVD or USB flash drive on almost any computer manufactured in the last 10 years. If interested in learning more, please visit us online. http://computers4christians.org/C4C-Lubuntu-RS.html
Eric, my comment about the defensibility of Linux was hyperbole, but I realize it’s hard to bring that across in writing. What’s hard to defend are some of the choices Canonical has made. While I admit to changing operating systems more often than most people, it has to do with a mission I don’t discuss often on this blog. So right now I use OpenSUSE 12.3 on my desktop and Debian Wheezy on my laptop. I’m glad you find Ubuntu useful, but it is most assuredly going the wrong direction for me and all my clients.