For those who read this blog from time to time, it's no surprise that I'm a linux user. The machine I'm currently using is a bit of a dinosaur, being about 6 years old and it's been without a Windows partition for all but the first week of its existence. I develop websites, so there are still a few version of Windows installed on some machines in the house for testing purposes, but they get used very rarely. One XP, one Vista and one Win7 - none of which get updated on any kind of regular basis. So be it.
Yesterday, I added Mint 12 XFCE to this desktop, adding it to a new partition (because I'm lazy and wanted to keep my old stuff, just in case). Less than half an hour later, the new OS is up and running, and everything works without issues, with the exception of my unsupported scanner. Even my HP1006 printer fired up without needing to be tweaked, a nice change from having to compile a driver on the fly for it, as I had to do in the past. Quite sweet!
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