And now, for something geeky....

[malada]

I like to take old computers and fix them up... mostly for fun. I obtained a laptop (waves at MM) with reasonable hardware and Windows 10 (unactivated) that I've been playing with and installed a viewer for Second Life on it.

And it failed to run because the video drivers were out of date. No drivers were available for Windows 10. The generic drives work for most applications though.

I found this strange since I've installed Second Life programs on far less beefy systems without an issue. Of course those machines were running Linux....

So I downloaded the latest edition of XUbuntu (my favorite flavor of Linux) and turned the laptop into a dual boot machine. And what do you know? The Second Life viewer installed without a hitch in the Xubuntu side of things. And it installed *faster* too.

Chalk up another win for Linux.

-m

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[malada]

SL is still fun when it isn't broken. It's not badly broken but simple things still get fluffed up.

And I kept Windows 10 on it just remind myself how entirely fluffed up Windows has become.

-m