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Currently I am redownloading Ubuntu so that I can actually make a boot disc, and what do you know, Firefox let me save it in somewhere that wasn't the temp folder!
HALLE-BLOODY-LUJAH.
I am also going to download Linux Mint so that I can make a boot disc from that and try it out.
Right now I'm using Windows, since that's what I'm familiar with, but it is SO SLOW compared to Ubuntu. Even my mouse pointer moves at a snail's pace. (Which is weird because Ubuntu is stressing the computer somewhat, but I think that is partly down to sharing the primary drive with Windows (which I discovered is taking up 20Gb of space, and I DON'T KNOW HOW. That's HALF THE FRIGGING DRIVE) ). I am definitely going to make the switch, I think. I've got used to Ubuntu now (for the most part - I still need to check that things like my scanner, printer, and camera will work when attached to the computer, but that's no biggie. I need to stop myself from installing stuff, though (how come I was up till 3:30 this morning - I decided to update the OS for the things it was missing, and there were 222 and I stupidly said yes, install them all RIGHT NOW!), because I'm just going to have to wipe the partition and start over (it's currently installed via Wubi, which last night was the only way I could get it to work, but working it is, so it's all OK).
By the way, I apologise for all this technobabble, but part of it is to remind myself what I'm doing/have done, and also an outlet because I say stuff to mum, and she just shrugs and says, "OK, dear". Which is fair enough. She's not technologically inclined.
Time to go burn that Ubuntu disc!
~*~
Edit from the future: I discovered what was taking up all that space on the C drive, by the way. It was all the stuff I'd saved on the drive thinking "Oh yeah, I've got plenty of stuff on here!" and then subsequently never deleted. So I backed it up, and then got rid of it, as I was doing that on the D drive anyway.
Hopefully that will make for a less complainy computer? *shrugs* [/eta]
HALLE-BLOODY-LUJAH.
I am also going to download Linux Mint so that I can make a boot disc from that and try it out.
Right now I'm using Windows, since that's what I'm familiar with, but it is SO SLOW compared to Ubuntu. Even my mouse pointer moves at a snail's pace. (Which is weird because Ubuntu is stressing the computer somewhat, but I think that is partly down to sharing the primary drive with Windows (which I discovered is taking up 20Gb of space, and I DON'T KNOW HOW. That's HALF THE FRIGGING DRIVE) ). I am definitely going to make the switch, I think. I've got used to Ubuntu now (for the most part - I still need to check that things like my scanner, printer, and camera will work when attached to the computer, but that's no biggie. I need to stop myself from installing stuff, though (how come I was up till 3:30 this morning - I decided to update the OS for the things it was missing, and there were 222 and I stupidly said yes, install them all RIGHT NOW!), because I'm just going to have to wipe the partition and start over (it's currently installed via Wubi, which last night was the only way I could get it to work, but working it is, so it's all OK).
By the way, I apologise for all this technobabble, but part of it is to remind myself what I'm doing/have done, and also an outlet because I say stuff to mum, and she just shrugs and says, "OK, dear". Which is fair enough. She's not technologically inclined.
Time to go burn that Ubuntu disc!
~*~
Edit from the future: I discovered what was taking up all that space on the C drive, by the way. It was all the stuff I'd saved on the drive thinking "Oh yeah, I've got plenty of stuff on here!" and then subsequently never deleted. So I backed it up, and then got rid of it, as I was doing that on the D drive anyway.
Hopefully that will make for a less complainy computer? *shrugs* [/eta]