Jonas Ferry’s blog

Last week I bought a new computer and have since spent time installing stuff. After ordering it I chose between an all-Windows installation, a dual-boot Windows/Linux machine (like my last one with Windows XP and Slackware Linux) or an all-Linux computer. You can say a lot of bad stuff about Microsoft Windows, but it’s usually easy getting stuff to work, while Linux requires more intimate knowledge of the inner workings of your computer and doesn’t have the same amount of software and device drivers.

Still, I settled for an all-Linux computer running Gentoo for a couple of reasons: I use it in my office at school as do the rest of the computer technology department, you download small packages of programs and utilities and can compose your own system and you compile the code locally which make it easier to optimize for your specific hardware. The downside of Gentoo is that it takes some time and requires some knowledge to get all you want working, but it can also be seen as an upside as you learn a lot along the way.

Maybe writing down what problems I have and how I solve them, if I solve them, will help someone else. I also know I have at least one regular (or semi-regular?) reader who is more into Linux than he is in roleplaying games so this new category will initially be for him.