Yes, I dropped the class. Today I talk about that a bit, but talk more about what I managed to accomplish afterwards.
Note: The recorder cut out at about 10’30” – you’ll hear the click and then I’ll talk about restarting it. Apparently I lost about a minute’s worth but I don’t remember what I was talking about so it’s not that important. 🙂
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Yes you need to strip it down and put linux on it. A true linux junky can only stomach windows in small doses. I have tried to do what you were talking about and I ended up striping down and wasting a lot of time I could have used doing something more productive. You have set up you like don’t try to change to much you will just be frustrated and non productive. I do prefer buntu just gnome but you do not use that anyway.
I meant that to say “just not gnome” sorry about that.
You’re welcome, Nathan! Any time you want some unsolicited advice or even a swift (verbal) kick to the seat of the pants, I stand ready! Just ask my husband……
While linux used to be something that could be significantly lighter than Windows, those times are long gone at this point. (Which is a pity.) A non-Gnome, non-KDE, non-Unity setup (as is apparently your preference) is definitely the right direction to head in for that purpose, but many of the core components have now become horribly bloated as well, not just the desktop setups. Also, you should be aware that Fedora has a 6-month release cycle with any given release being end-of-lifed (EOL) after 2 cycles. So, unless you like reinstalling (since the upgrade process tends to result in stability-impairing cruft) often (at least once a year), you may not want to go that route.
Frankly, you might be best off just planning on replacing the system … and, if you really want to put it to use still, setting it up as a headless server. Old laptops usually work quite nicely for that from a power consumption standpoint, though with admittedly lousy drive performance. (Of course, these days, it’s a bit hard to find a distribution that’ll let you install without all the GUI stuff in a manner that won’t leave a lot of stuff broken … so you might just want to toss on one of the BSDs instead if you do that.)
Also, if you’re in the hunt for a new laptop, and you like HPs, many of theirs are going cheap these days.