Well, before I get to the whole Linux deal, I might as well mention some changes to the website. If you look up, you’ll see a cool image, which I made. There are also minor improvements with the site, and I’m setting up forums (I may decide not to, but you can check them so far at forums.appsonroids.com. OK, now to the headline.

My family recently decided that our old laptop from several years ago, the WinXP era, was ready for demolition. We ordered a replacement laptop from Dell, and at some point I remembered my lifelong goal of owning a Linux machine. I specifically wanted Ubuntu, but a friend showed me Linux Mint, a derivative of Ubuntu with a nicer UI and some improvements like Flash so it works out of the box. I installed it, and my only complaint is the limits of this old laptop’s RAM and CPU. It’s one of those computers that has less than a gig of RAM, and whose CPU doesn’t even work well. But, Linux works better than the XP that was on it. And it looks great, a feat people rarely attribute to many Linux distros. Although I’m not a serious Linux user, at least not yet, and I only know one terminal command, (shutdown -h now), I’m pretty proud of myself. Too bad the web browsing isn’t great, due to the terrible RAM, and I couldn’t post this from it as a result.