belsonc
06-07-2005, 08:09 PM
Ok, here we go... the specs on my laptop are below, and I want to be able to use it as a travel laptop - so that I don't have to take my good one with me. I want to be able to write, listen to music (including some wma files), code, and watch movies - and use my flash drive. The reason why I added in that last part is because the drive works wonderfully in Ubuntu, but freezes, say, Libranet when I try to mount it. However, after upgrading my Ubuntu installation entirely, installing everything I can find, I still can't get a project to generate in anjuta without some sort of an error message. I don't remember if Suse mounted the flash drive properly or if it had the same problem as Libranet, but I know I was able to program and write on it, and I have access to a high speed connection for that laptop, so I can always install mplayer or xmms or whatever it doesn't always come with. Slackware has a lovely little coding program known as KDevelop which works nicely (insert kde/gnome flamefest here), but won't go 1024x768 on my laptop - which Ubuntu and Suse do just fine.
Is most of this stuff changeable? Yes, I know it is - for example, I just have to add a couple of lines to my x config file to fix the 1024x768 problem - but when I see that something works so nicely and easily for me without configuring at all... am I being idealistic for wanting something that Just Works? Or am I just lazy? :)
Is most of this stuff changeable? Yes, I know it is - for example, I just have to add a couple of lines to my x config file to fix the 1024x768 problem - but when I see that something works so nicely and easily for me without configuring at all... am I being idealistic for wanting something that Just Works? Or am I just lazy? :)