Ubuntu Love.

At the start of this semester, I had brought my old PC to my hostel and had installed Ubuntu on it. However the LAN was not working. I tried to solve the issue but I believe it was a hardware issue. I kept the PC aside and borrowed a Windows laptop from my friend to do my work on.

After my exams I took the spare laptop from my house, a 2012/2013 Asus X401A, and install Ubuntu on it. I have happily been using it ever since. Recently I got a little bored of the theme and decided to change the color of the bar as well as all the fonts. My desktop is as below.

I bought a Sony Z3 Compact two months back and so my Nexus 4 is just lying around. The N4 is now running the beautiful Lollipop and I can't wait for Z3C to be updated as well. So yesterday I got the idea of trying out Ubuntu Touch on my N4. Today I set out to do it but am encountering difficulty getting the phone detected. I will update my progress.

Installing Ubuntu

Since last week my laptop has been on life support. My last chance of saving it might be a clean installation of the OS but I would have to back up all my files before I do that. Thus this week I brought my old house computer, which was in storage, to school. The monitor, keyboard and mouse were already here, for use with the RPi so I just had to bring in my CPU. Not wanting to use Windows as the OS I had burnt a Ubuntu 32bit installer on one of my flash drives using my house computer before hand.

 

For some reason there appeared to be a hidden drive that I was not aware of, running Windows XP. And it was twice the size of my main drive(80gb)!I was trying to remember if I had partitioned the computer before but could not remember doing so. And they appeared as two separate hard disks, not separate partitions. Ubuntu was prompting me to choose one to install over. I decided to investigate.

 

 This was the culprit. A small hard disk that I had savaged from a netbook that someone had thrown away. I had forgotten that I had connected it to this computer. I decided to leave it there for now, might use it for an upcoming hack I have in mind.

 

 And tadaa! My PC set up with Ubuntu! Ready to roll! If you are wondering why I chose Ubuntu over the other distributions; well I decided I had to start somewhere, why not here.

Currently I am having some issues. Online lectures are not playing and lan connection is not detected. Right now I am resolving the video issue and using a wifi dongle. Will look into the other issue when time permits and hopefully get around to customizing the OS.