Linux Stuff
May. 9th, 2014 03:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
owsf2000I've talked about making the switch to Linux off and on for years now.
At present I'm mostly there. I installed Ubuntu on my old comp and have it set up next to the Windows box. Many things work fine on it, although I did notice that minecraft still does weird crashes on the old comp regardless of OS. I suspect it's the driver issue after all... As such I haven't minecrafted much this week since I've had the Linux box running the entire time. Trying to get use to it and all that. There's some things I like, some things I don't. I may yet attempt other distributions to see if they're suitable for me.
To run the Windows box, I just have to swap a few cords, but there's only a few things I can't use on linux right now (Games aside from Steam - although I have Steam itself on Linux) so the needs to switch over to the other computer which has noisier fans is likely to be limited to minecrafting and games. Although only a small number of my steam games would work on that one as well. >_>
technically if I want to turn the linux comp back into a windows comp all I have to do is swap out the harddrive. I still have the harddrive XP is installed on tucked away. ^^ Doing this I might swap out the other comp's XP drive for a fresh one and go about playing with new installs. It'll just depend on what kind of harddrive that comp takes. If it needs sata drives, no problem - they're easy to get. If it takes IDE... well, that would be a bit harder to locate these days it seems. ^^ Although I do technically have a useable IDE drive - I'd just have to finish backing it's contents up elsewhere before formatting it for an OS.
At present I'm mostly there. I installed Ubuntu on my old comp and have it set up next to the Windows box. Many things work fine on it, although I did notice that minecraft still does weird crashes on the old comp regardless of OS. I suspect it's the driver issue after all... As such I haven't minecrafted much this week since I've had the Linux box running the entire time. Trying to get use to it and all that. There's some things I like, some things I don't. I may yet attempt other distributions to see if they're suitable for me.
To run the Windows box, I just have to swap a few cords, but there's only a few things I can't use on linux right now (Games aside from Steam - although I have Steam itself on Linux) so the needs to switch over to the other computer which has noisier fans is likely to be limited to minecrafting and games. Although only a small number of my steam games would work on that one as well. >_>
technically if I want to turn the linux comp back into a windows comp all I have to do is swap out the harddrive. I still have the harddrive XP is installed on tucked away. ^^ Doing this I might swap out the other comp's XP drive for a fresh one and go about playing with new installs. It'll just depend on what kind of harddrive that comp takes. If it needs sata drives, no problem - they're easy to get. If it takes IDE... well, that would be a bit harder to locate these days it seems. ^^ Although I do technically have a useable IDE drive - I'd just have to finish backing it's contents up elsewhere before formatting it for an OS.
