Overpass Experiences » Linux http://www.wroolie.co.uk The Eric Wroolie Blog Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:07:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Finally got Ubuntu to look the way I want http://www.wroolie.co.uk/2009/02/07/finally-got-ubuntu-to-look-the-way-i-want/ http://www.wroolie.co.uk/2009/02/07/finally-got-ubuntu-to-look-the-way-i-want/#comments Sat, 07 Feb 2009 08:47:10 +0000 Eric Wroolie http://www.wroolie.co.uk/?p=308
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    • ]]>     I pushed XP aside on my laptop a few months ago and installed Ubuntu Linux. I've done this before, but usually there is one reason I go back (like MLB TV or a new version of Visual Studio). Then XP slows way down and it's not even worth booting up the laptop to look something up. It just takes too long.

    I got a netbook a few weeks ago and put Ubuntu Netbook Remix on it. I really enjoy it an it's the perfect size for sitting on the train and writing a blog post (but it also means I have two laptops now-- one a full-size Vaio laptop and the netbook-- and the iPhone and I still have my desktop with XP which I use for C# development). The netbook is great, but I wanted my Linux laptop to look as cool as people show in You Tube videos. No matter how hard I tried, I could only cusomize it so far.

    But yesterday, when I was home again because of snow (the entire week has been snow and flu), I found this tutorial mby Marius Nestor on softpedia:
    http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-8-10-Desktop-Customization-Guide-100830.shtml

    Now, I got my laptop desktop looking pretty slick:

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