vakkotaur

Yep, things are normal. I just get started on Mandrake 9.0 and Mandrake 9.1 is finally released. I've decided to hold off for a while. If nothing else, let the ftp servers get less swamped. And, do I really want to try updating/upgrading after getting things (mostly) working the way I want them?

So far, aside from Audacity and windows file sharing, things have pretty much just worked. Some fiddling and learning, of course, but no complete defeats. The file sharing problem can be worked around with ftp. Yakko might have something on Audacity yet. I might just try Sweep if Audacity is too problematic.

I still need to find out how to rip CDs, and how to burn them. And I need to find what file types may have problems. These are mainly video clips. Nautilus is nice, and will allow me to sort out files and directories with relative ease. The XMMS default skin is kewl. Kewl skins, like kewl pages, suck. Fortunately there are other skins and a couple are non-sucking.

I'm sure I have a lot to learn, probably even to do simple things. Yet most things haven't presented any great difficulty, so I'm not too concerned. I expect I will still use Windows from time to time, but probably not too often. The last few days my Windows use (at home) was just to get a few files from percheron (W2k) to belgian (linux).

I must be getting comfortable with things. This morning, I shut the Windows machine down - and I don't know when I might turn it on again.