Recently installing Ubuntu on my recently acquired Asus EEEEEEEEPC (Everyone Everywhere Emits Exciting Excitations Everywhere Endlessly Emu Personal Computer) has given me some trouble.
I see myself as a rather competent user, and it is a bit disturbing being so unfamiliar with an OS. I've been a MICRO$HIT WINBLOWS (lol I'm hip) user since Windows 3.1, and I really feel like a fish out of water on linux. The little unix experience I've had has come through my intro computer science courses, but the unix commands aren't really in the scope of the course, just a bit of a byproduct of learning programming fundamentals and navigating day to day.
Anyway, the point of this post is to show my appreciation for Google. I'm not sure what I would do without it.
I wanted to customize my Ubuntu like the hipster I am, so I Googled
download ubuntu themes
Taking me to gnome-look, where I commenced to browse. I found a login theme that I thought was interesting, so I went ahead and downloaded it. I had problems because I wanted to edit it/add it to my login themes library, however it wasn't as easy as I expected. I won't spell out the story, I will let my Google searches tell the story:
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That last one was the finisher, helping me learn the whole command to copy a folder recursively with root permissions into my /usr/share/gdm/themes/. This whole Googling process was elongated by the fact that I was editing the image on a trackpad in GIMP on a netbook at the same time.
If you have any questions about this terribly noobish and obscure issue, feel free to ask me about it because I can probably help.
Moral of the story? The internet can tell you absolutely anything you want to know if you play a game of 20(+) questions with it.
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ReplyDeleteHa ha, I'll keep you and your magic Googling in mind (dude... Bing is so much better. I'll let you do your Googling. I be Bingin, bro. Actually I just wanted to mention Bing to sound cool...).
ReplyDeleteYou write well, by the way. I don't mean technically, cuz heck if I know anything about that. I'm just saying this post entertained me.
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