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Life in Linuxland
Jul. 5th, 2010 11:04 amSo, yes, it's all reasonably Mint-y fresh and happy. Not perfectly so, but progress has been made. Admittedly, my easy success in getting Air + Mixero to work may have led me to believe rather too optimistically that the migration would be a series of pieces of cake.
Yesterday, I regained access, via a lot of tweaking with M, to the external hard drive where I store most of my stuff.
I finally found a blogging client that's not several years out of date and that will support multiple accounts. As yet it doesn't do LJ and IJ, so I'm writing this with ScribeFire in Firefox, not an ideal situation as it means running a second browser solely for blogging. Lack of a multi-account cross-blogging-service application is a deal breaker as far as ditching Windows goes. I'm feeling quite pleased myself as far as getting BloGTK goes: it's not in the Mint Software Manager list, nor in the Synaptic packages: I had to add another source and install it myself. Scary stuff! ;-) See my l33t OS skills! Still, it's only a partial success.
Current failures, however, include not having sorted out printing, failing to install anything with Mint (so no Spotify, no OED, no FrameMaker). No internet for most of Friday, when I'd hoped to solve some of these, didn't help. I may have to go and RTFMs a bit. (Surprisingly little reading of anything has gone on as mostly things just work.)
Fixing stuff is important, since on Thursday, Looby Loo is going to tidy up the hard disk on the desktop machine she uses, install Mint, set it up so she can use it, and get on with programming in Logo without stealing my laptop. (She is definitely taking after the "ooh, shiny new gadget" side of the family.)
Yesterday, I regained access, via a lot of tweaking with M, to the external hard drive where I store most of my stuff.
I finally found a blogging client that's not several years out of date and that will support multiple accounts. As yet it doesn't do LJ and IJ, so I'm writing this with ScribeFire in Firefox, not an ideal situation as it means running a second browser solely for blogging. Lack of a multi-account cross-blogging-service application is a deal breaker as far as ditching Windows goes. I'm feeling quite pleased myself as far as getting BloGTK goes: it's not in the Mint Software Manager list, nor in the Synaptic packages: I had to add another source and install it myself. Scary stuff! ;-) See my l33t OS skills! Still, it's only a partial success.
Current failures, however, include not having sorted out printing, failing to install anything with Mint (so no Spotify, no OED, no FrameMaker). No internet for most of Friday, when I'd hoped to solve some of these, didn't help. I may have to go and RTFMs a bit. (Surprisingly little reading of anything has gone on as mostly things just work.)
Fixing stuff is important, since on Thursday, Looby Loo is going to tidy up the hard disk on the desktop machine she uses, install Mint, set it up so she can use it, and get on with programming in Logo without stealing my laptop. (She is definitely taking after the "ooh, shiny new gadget" side of the family.)
