061202 01:05 by iDRMRSR

I think when I leapt into the UBUNTU fray, I certainly didn't do enough (heh heh) WINDOW shopping before I mindlessly downloaded plain old UBUNTU.

I just installed KDE along with GNOME (which was standard with UBUNTU) and now I am MUCHO happier in most regards. KDE looks just like Windoze, well enough so that I don't feel completely lost. It also plays with BERYL much better. I can flip and rotate my six desktops to my heart's desire.

Which is pretty ironic because, I'm ONE sole person here. What in "Bob"s sweet name would I need SIX desktops for? However it's nice to know I could have them if I wanted. MIDI playing is quite a bit better, too, for some reason.

The only thing is, KDE is about 50% slower than GNOME. It's pretty obvious the eye and ear candy is stressing the pants off the 1.3 GHZ processor in my old box. I didn't bother to 100% configure everything in it to my liking. I can see that would be rather daunting. So many crappy options, so little time.

How ever I can see now that if I had INITIALLY gone with KDE I would have spent fewer hours in total frustration.

Well, this'll give me something to do to fill my solitary hours with something besides playing SOLITAIRE.

Especially since MySpace seems to have petered out as a source of diversion. Less traffic there than on some of those alt.slack.whatever newsgroups you see from time to time.