Dual-boot with Xubuntu has been achieved.
Aug. 23rd, 2010 08:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snarpAnd it's much faster, which is nice, but. You guys. The bash shell is a fine and elegant thing, but there should be GUI options for stuff like:
1) Changing the touchpad settings.
2) Making a shortcut.
You can make desktop shortcuts from the context menu, but quickbar shortcuts require finding the pathname and cutting and pasting it in there; there's no drag-and-drop. And you have to manually select the correct icon from a long, non-searchable list, and sometimes the correct icon isn't actually on the list.
2) Installing Japanese input.
Bizarrely, you can actually go into System > Language Support and ask it to install the language package, and it'll say it's doing it - but it only does half the job. Completing it requires changing all the default settings (why are the default settings wrong?), turning it on via the command line (why doesn't it turn on automatically?), and installing the necessary fonts.
I guess I can vaguely see why it couldn't install the fonts - there aren't many good kanji fonts, and the best ones are apparently proprietary. But the rest of it makes no sense.
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Still. It's, like, five times faster than Vista.
1) Changing the touchpad settings.
2) Making a shortcut.
You can make desktop shortcuts from the context menu, but quickbar shortcuts require finding the pathname and cutting and pasting it in there; there's no drag-and-drop. And you have to manually select the correct icon from a long, non-searchable list, and sometimes the correct icon isn't actually on the list.
2) Installing Japanese input.
Bizarrely, you can actually go into System > Language Support and ask it to install the language package, and it'll say it's doing it - but it only does half the job. Completing it requires changing all the default settings (why are the default settings wrong?), turning it on via the command line (why doesn't it turn on automatically?), and installing the necessary fonts.
I guess I can vaguely see why it couldn't install the fonts - there aren't many good kanji fonts, and the best ones are apparently proprietary. But the rest of it makes no sense.
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Still. It's, like, five times faster than Vista.
