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I’ve been testing out Ubuntu on an old laptop I managed to get hold off. So far, the main problem has been getting a decent window manager set up, since the laptop spec is too slow to work with the default Gnome. Another problem has been wifi and static ip. I hate using dhcp (dynamic ip), but using wpa supplicant I managed to get static ip working.

Using Network Manager Gnome was recommended, but since I needed to put in the keyring password everytime I booted, and the method to bypass this wouldn’t work with auto login, I had to find an alternative to be able to log in to my home network, i.e wpa supplicant.

Next few things I need to get done is: setup fluxbox, an alternative window manager for low end systems, install some “killer” apps, and start learning Linux properly.

I’ve wanted to learn Linux for a long time, but using it on my windows laptop is a big NO, since I don’t like dual booting, even when I used Vista, dual booting was hassle, and it becomes annoying having to reboot to get back to Windows, and not being able to access my files properly unless I use an unstable and risky Linux NTFS driver, or format my HD using FAT32 .