I used to get excited about new computers not because they were faster or really any better (to be honest, I never noticed that in computers, I never had problems with their speeds), but it was about what new things there were. What random programs I could find. What things had changed from the last time I'd gotten a new computer, especially so anytime I got a new operating system (which, to be fair, has always been Windows to this point).
So buying a computer with a blank hard drive is a different experience entirely. Because the first time you click the power button and it says "insert boot device" instead of opening some nice pretty GUI and letting you point at random pretty things. It's a new experience for me, because I've never been terribly tech-savvy. I know my way around a computer well enough, but I've never installed Linux before. I still can't say that I have because it still doesn't work.
Oh, and it's frustrating, just by the way. I've been staring at one of two computer screens all day. My eyes hurt, my hand hurts, and it does not appear to be installing things that are apparently key to making it work. So yeah, frustrating. Also my legs hurt, but I imagine that's entirely unrelated. I'm just tired and I want this to start working (after doing everything ten times in a row). I haven't really thought about too much else all day because I've been a bit preoccupied with this. Which is, despite all the frustration, still pretty interesting. Anyhow, I'm going to get back to that. Sorry, no real logical blog post for today. Too much thinking in strings of letters and symbols that I don't really understand to try to write in pretty words.
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