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I'm home! I'm sleepy! I will post more later!

I'M TRYING OUT LINUX.

So, there was this netbook panel, right? And about 80% of the people, not just on the panel but in the audience, were running some flavor of Linux. I think it was K. Tempest Bradford who recommended thumbdrivelinux as a nifty way to install Linux on a thumb drive just to try it out without having to mess with partitions or ERASING YOUR WHOLE HARD DRIVE OH NOES. I didn't catch the name of the woman with pink-streaked hair who evangelized to me about Linux for a bit. There was something she said about how Linux manages program updates that struck me as nifty. So, I thought maybe I can try that out. And it turns out, I can try that out!

OpenOffice has been my main writing program anyway of late, both on my netbook and on my Mac, and if my netbook use is limited to writing, internet stuff, and FreeCell -- well, why not, right?

I feel like I'm standing on the edge of a giant precipice of geekness.

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Too slow to keep running Linux off a flash drive; too little HD space to comfortably double-boot (the netbook has a smaller solid-state drive rather than a larger traditional spinny hard drive); so I have jumped into Linux Mint with both feet.

I am quite content thus far. I may not yet see the dozen reasons it's superior to Windows, but the installation process was completely painless and all the hardware works right out of the box.

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I don't know how I got Japanese input to work on this computer, but. I did.

I rule the universe.

Japanese input in Mac OSX is, "OK, so I turn Japanese on, and the next step is... oh. It works."
Japanese input in Linux Mint is, "OK, so I turn Japanese on, and now I go under Preferences and fiddle with SCIM input method, and it didn't work, let's try and restart it, and it still didn't work, let's download some packages, let's search on the forum, let's restart one more time, oh hey the language bar shows up now but I can't seem to click on it, let's search on the forum some more, I'm getting tired, maybe I'll ask on the forum in the morning. Oh, there's the language bar actually doing something useful but I can't get it to switch over to anything. Let's fiddle with SCIM again... oh, there we go."

This bodes poorly. Yet, I rule the universe.