Wow, I’ve been busy and I’ve continued to use Linux and continue to marvel at its overall stability and amazing uptime. Today I did all of my typed work on my laptop, it was a chore to use a laptop keyboard, but OpenOffice is so much more wonderful on Linux than any other platform I’ve tried it on, and of course I have the typical stand-by, Google Docs. A far I’ve only but this laptop in the name equivalent to ‘sleep’ in Mac terminology or ‘stand-by’ in Windows terminology for the past three days without a single issue, I haven’t done that with Windows since… ever.
I’ve discovered that there is a lot of scripting possibility in Linux, but I still can’t wrap my brain around Python, however Perl scripting should be more than adequate for me. Last time I wrote I mentioned that it doesn’t remember my wireless network password, I discovered why. I had to set up my KDE password wallet (similar to the Mac keychain). It now works fine and can transition from wired to wireless with ease, and contrary to what I originally thought, the wireless on/off switch works fine.
I suppose I should move on to my daily complaints about Linux that I will eventually find a fix for: first, there are no good twitter clients. Second, network printing is less than intuitive and I haven’t got it working yet. Third, Google Docs in Firefox doesn’t display the same font as on Windows. Forth, Flash player sucks. Fifth, flash player REALLY sucks. Sixth, It’s depressingly like Windows.
**You can ignore the sixth reason, it’s not really a legitimate argument.**
You can ignore most of the reasons that I’m hating on Linux as they aren’t that real, Flash Player is a bit slow, but nothing worse than using flash on a Pentium 4, and the font issue is just a slight variance that comes with a different operating system. I can’t encourage readers to give Linux a try, I l-o-v-e Kubuntu. It works well in a virtualization platform like Virtualbox, Parallels, or VMWare (Microsoft VirtualPC is on the fence and not-so good, if you need free, go Virtualbox), but there is nothing like running it actually. Remember that PCs catch viruses, the Macs marketshare is climbing and will soon have viruses, whereas Linux is purely for people in the know and probably won’t have all of the issues, but is at the same time great for just about anyone to use.