Linux Introduction

There are a lot of very good blogs around where you can find serious people posting and giving lots of advices. Yet, even though I am an IT person, so someone who knows a bit about computers I always find it hard to find answers to those questions that seem really simple but actually are not. For example how to make GIMP more user friendly...

Now the real introduction: Apart from a bigger machine, I am also an owner of a not so new, but really cool DELL Latutide X1. Nice girly hot piece of hardware if you ask me. It fits easily in every medium bag, has widescreen 12.1 1280x768 display and weighs only 1.14kg (let's be honest my makeup accessories on party night weigh much more ;) Weight comes from two factors: there is no built in CD, which in time of widely accessible wifi I never find a problem, and lack of fan, which makes this laptop hot after a while. Funny enough, for most people it's a real drawback, while for me it's a bliss! My hands are always cold, laugh if you like, but this is the only keyboard that heats them nicely :P This box has one great flaw though. It comes fitted with Windows. And Windows is not my OS of choice. It's buggy. It doesn't allow me to do what I want keeping every information hidden and... It is crazy bad when it comes to security. This is after all my "work at home, on the way, in the plane" laptop we're talking about. I do not want any viruses, and I do use internet immensely. Therefore windows is not for me.

I used to be a huge fan of gentoo linux distribution, for the reason, that it lets you actually build the soft like it was a really good dress: well fitting, and quick to put on. Oh well... quicker than debian for example. Portage is a heaven in disguise when it comes to getting new software. But enough. Don't want to bore you with history. Cause it is history for me. Every single kernel update kept breaking my distro, requiring more and more patches.
Newest gentoo live CD didn't even want to get to the disk partitioning part properly. And my life got busy. I had not enough time to tweak it daily. I've tried Ubuntu. After all it's a friendly distribution. So they say. I didn't like it. And then I thought, why not go back to something I used ages ago? I used to use Red Hat, when it was still open source and nobody heard about Fedora. Hey, I thought to myself, maybe try that? See what has changed in Fedora 12.

It has changed a lot of course. For example, live CD which I got from fedora KDE site (oh yes I use KDE for a lot of applications I like and really nice sleek looks) run without any problems, installed sound drivers properly (first wow!), wifi drivers as well (second, really big wow), and OpenGL (for slightly quicker 3d rendering, not that this box is good for nowadays games, but it helps a lot to have it!). All was there within a couple of minutes.

After a while first problems popped up. I could not install updates and the information about error was really scarce :/ Boo! Smells like windows.