If you know Crunchbang Linux you can customise the desktop look and menus I set up the desktop very similar to my current desktop on my own laptop shaggy. This part probably mystified him as it is a lot of editing of text files but the results are always very is satisfying. I also loaded up all the software packages he may need all of which were included bar around two in Crunchbang.

So now I have left him a laptop which looks similar to windows with the usual Linux bent to it which he can explore and find out just how to use Linux in anger or just have an old Windows Vista Laptop which is now usable once again.

But one thing that struck him all the way through was just how usable even a set up Crunchbang Linux was and the fact it used the resources on the Laptop infinity better than Windows Vista ever did. Lets put it this was the Linux sound drivers used the speakers on the said laptop so much better along with number of other bits of hardware.

All this proves is that it takes a gentle push to convert the growing number of dissatisfied Windows users out there towards Linux or someone to show them Linux is not the bugbear both Apple and Microsoft claims it to be!

I am into the first week off of a two week holiday from work and I have already put behind the hassle at work as it is already unimportant to me. After the last month work has become less important only it’s negative effects on me playing any significant part to my life but they are even just getting an annoyance rather than real problems.

I am getting to the point of feeling my job once again is just ends to a means of making enough money to live and really not an important part of my life which frankly now outside of my work. I am back to trying to define myself not by my work but by me myself the individual.

All this to get back to the creative person I had become again a month ago as it was a place I loved as it started to give back some meaning to my life.

So one again I try to fight the good fight with myself so I can live in a better place inside my own head.

So tonight I am in a rare thing a good mood and relaxed.

This is ‘Awesome sauce.’ by somegreybloke:

I told you I was ill.

Spike Milligan (1918-2005)

This is Weebl’s Stuff’s ‘Emo Pear’:

In these years contrary to those within the Computer Industry and those users who have fell for the propaganda within the said Computer Industry I have done exactly the same as I would of done if I had a Windows Computer. If anything I have managed to do more things on my Linux computers which could not of been done in Windows because of the limits Microsoft puts on it’s own operating systems!

I have also fun in these years Linux again contrary to the propaganda from within the Computer Industry is no harder to use or set up than Windows itself as some of the Linux Distributions look remarkably the same as Windows XP or even Apple o/s.

I am and I will continue to drive this point home to people out there as it needs to be done so as this point needs to be continually hammered out to computer users out there especially those users who are not happy with Microsoft Windows 8 and those Windows xp users dreading the upgrade to newer Windows operating systems.

The point being computer users do have a real choice of operating systems out there and the big Computer Companies are denying you the right of this choice by spreading lies and misinformation about alternative operating systems and software!

It also got me thinking that Linux allows people like myself can create desktops we are comfortable with rather than large majority of Windows Users who are given a desktop by Microsoft with no ability to change it other than colours and positions of tiles in the case of Windows 8.

Basically Microsoft forces the users to accept their desktop regardless of the fact most users cannot use it or dislike the desktop they are provided with by Microsoft.

You might say Linux Users like myself cry a Rebel Yell against the desktop fascists like Microsoft and Apple by creating our own customised desktop in a small defiance to their attempt to control the minds and souls of the computer users!

The following is the current desktop of the laptop in question which will change when I fancy a change:

Though I cannot say that about the rest of the people I work with as I suspect something big I going to happen after end of last week as I really suspect some people are not going to be happy with what happened. When it occurs I will just watch then say to those who need it told you so.

It also helps this week that after tomorrow I have two weeks off work so I am in a Holiday mood just glad I have another two weeks to rest again as I need it. This time I am actually visiting people so even better as I will have break from my environment called home which should do me a world of good. Plus it would be nice again to mix with people outside of my own family and work.

So tonight I am in a rare thing a good mood and relaxed.

All is grist that comes to the mill.

English Proverb

If anything Crunchbang worked even better than the previous Linux Lite which I always found to be a bit slow and resource heavy as it’s desktop was Gnome 2 based. I should not of been surprised by this as I have always found Gnome desktops to be slow on most of the computers I have used.

It looks like that both Crunchbang and Debain have progressed a lot in the last year as now both Linux’s load on newer hardware so much easier and result in a more stable operating system on said modern computers.

So now I have Crunchbang on all my computers at home both Crunchbang 10 and Crunchbang 11 all with customised openbox desktops and once again I am falling in love with Crunchbang Linux as I am finding it a very pleasant, stable and easily fixable Linux to use. Though as I have said before it is not best Linux for new user of Linux but most definite one of the better Linux’s for the more experienced users or someone who really wants to learn more about Linux in general.

The following is the current desktop of the laptop in question which will change when I fancy a change: