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In fact if one of you cheeky Apple lovers wants to gift me $1399.99 or a new MacBook Air, go right ahead. No matter what your complaints about Windows, when’s the last time you had to do that?Īnd maybe a Mac is better.

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My point, an update forced me to reinstall my operating system. This involves using pen drive linux to write another OS disk image to a flash drive, booting my computer up from the flash drive, and installing the new OS (after two hours of backup of course).

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I’ll install Zorin 9 lite, since it’ll probably work better on my older hardware anyway. Oh wait, unknown error, missing library, invalid C++ compiler. Three steps later and I am ready to compile. To compile Avant, I needed a development version of Python, different apparently from the Python I’d installed to run scripts (and that’s a whole other story involving installing SSL libraries and in some cases gcc and make). You don’t have a nice EXE guiding you through the installation process and doing everything in the background. Like with a lot of Linux programs you must first configure the source code, make the source code, and then install it. As a sidebar the Avant developer in the forum seemed really kind of rude, especially to Linux n00bs just trying to learn their system (directed at others not myself since I only tend to create new threads if my specific problem hasn’t actually been solved).

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So, after some forum searching it turns out there is a more up-to-date version of Avant Window Manager, and I can download the source code from GitHub.

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Long story short I was able to boot my computer up in another OS, authenticate with two-step verification with Steam, which involved two-step verification with the Gmail, and buy the game. I had to launch Opera with a terminal (command prompt), only to find out I couldn’t get to my network settings to actually connect and authenticate with the wireless. True, Zorin is now up to version 9, but 6 is in LTS support until 2017, so I should have been all right. Apparently an update I’d run the other day killed the Avant Window Manager (which as it turns out was kind of out of date and unsupported, unbeknownst to me since it came packaged with Zorin). When I get to Starbucks the equivalent of my Start Menu and Taskbar are gone. I was at work which understandably restricts game purchases but I had the solution in hand, take my trusty old netbook out for an internet spin. Unfortunately I forgot about the sale until the next morning, giving me until 10am PDT (or about 1pm my time) to get the game. Specifically, The Walking Dead Season 2 and the 400 Days DLC (the DLC would be effectively free since I could pay for it with Steam wallet funds gained from selling trading cards).

Last week a game on my Steam wishlist was on sale. Okay, for the techies out there let’s be specific: Zorin 6 built on top of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is frustrating, though trust me, it’s not alone. I think it’s time I come out and say it Linux is a frustrating operating system. I’ve got about fifty minutes before I have to leave for a customer visit, so I thought I’d write to all of you (though with the spotty internet here I may have to post this later in the afternoon). Deviating a bit from my normal routine this morning, I am writing you from the Crimson Cup coffee shop while enjoying my cranberry and orange muffin, and hot mocha.