Another 1-week downtime...

let me tell you this...

after 1 week of struggle, install and uninstall, update, upgrade and so on...

phew...

finally I've settled on xubuntu...

the funny thing is, both are ubuntu related,

yet, linuxmint's pretty buggy for my liking, first, the ibus didn't work, no matter what, it just ain't working well...

the candidates won't show up, the more I tried?? cool, in the end, it didn't even tickle, ie. Even though it's ibus-enabled, yet, it's not inputing anything of ibus-related characters... (damn you!)

I tried with linuxmint mate, linuxmint xfce, cos, xubuntu 13.10 worked fine on one of my very old netbook, ie. HP mini 1000... works like breeze...

so, I thought, since I've been using mint for a while, why not I just stick to it right?

Therefore, I gave linuxmint xfce a try...

in fac, in fact, in fact, I love the interface, it's much better than mate...

I love the pre-packed apps that come together, but then, just like any linuxmint petra versions, the wireless driver ain't working...

and that, I've to install later...

and again, the ibus, JUST AIN'T WORKING!

And finally, I decided to give up...

give up on linuxmint, which I am so familiar with, and like it...

particularly, I like their file manager,

so, I put on xubuntu, bingo!! the wireless has no problem, and the ibus, though, I can't get the “preference” for pinyin to work, but the by-default configuration is fine with me, I mean, I just want to have 10 candidates shown up, rather than the default 5... but I'm fine with it, I can live with it...

now... I'll be on xubuntu for a while...

a while... till linuxmint/ibus fix each other...

or, till... indefinitely...

my linuxmint 16 experience... 48hr downtime...

it started like this...

at first, it's just one of those usual update/upgrade...

but i was playing with .wine stuff and things... and they weren't working... so, i was doing some autoclean...

then, suddenly, all gone,

i could login to the desktop, but there's no launcher bar and so on, ie. i can't launch a thing...,

then, the rightclick didn't give me much choice either...

therefore, it started the 48hr downtime,

i gotta move my nearly 450G data somewhere,

luckily i bought a new 1T HDD, else... (down the drain!)

and of course, it took some time,

cos, i gotta move the files, and also, gotta find out what to move, not to say that, i'm so familiar with linux, right???

so, in between, there're quite a bit of research to be done,

while on my windows PC, i gotta look for new linuxmint, or new ubuntu...

then, I installed linuxmint 16, ooi?? network doesn't work, it wasn't detecting my wifi...

i panicked a little bit... seriously i don't quite like to "solve" problem, especially my brain's trained to be a mother/housewife type of thinking, rather than err... looking a script and troubleshooting...

anyway,

after checking here and there, and with my brother...

and after doing a few installation of either linuxmint 15, 16, 14, and ubuntu 13.10...

all failed...

my brother told me, it's driver's problem, but then, why do i see my wireless detecting other networks except my own one??

however, it IS the wireless card's driver's problem... ie. my broadcom 4313, on my compaq notebook... hm!

i finally found it on the linuxmint forum,

and... mm... cos, i somehow need a connection, so, i used my handphone as the hotspot, download the patch from the linuxmint onboard software centre,

everything solved, everything done...

now, it's still in the midst of restoration, mind you!