A bit of Linux weirdness

I'm a long time penquinista - running Linux since the early 2000s and I just had one heck of a tussle.

I was re-installing Xubuntu on my media machine after being disappointed with Ubuntu Studio... and it failed. First, the install went okay until the reboot where I had *no networking*. A re-install threw an error and a clean install gave me a *specific* error.

Apparently there's a bug when you install the extra drivers (Nvidia) when you install the operating system. I hadn't seen that before as I usually add in the drivers (Nvidia) while installing. Just to be safe, I downloaded a fresh image of Xubuntu and installed the extra drivers (Nvidia) after getting the base system set up.

Along the way I discovered a neat GRUB menu editor which I need to play with more.

Time spent on basically four installs of the operating system - about two and a half to three hours. That includes time I spent diagnosing the network, running a really long ethernet cable and downloading a new image.

It helps that I was installing from a USB stick onto an SSD.

But holy cow it is faster than installing Windows! I spent longer just updating Windows 10 a few days ago. Yes, I actually have a copy of Windows 10 on a beat up quad core laptop just to remind myself how much Windows 10 SUCKS.

I still have to reconfigure my system with the needed programs to do my music and video work but that's not a big deal.

-m