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Episode: 2467
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Title: HPR2467: I randomly talk about my laptops
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr2467/hpr2467.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-19 03:44:03
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This is HPR episode 2467 entitled, I randomly talk about my laptops.
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It is hosted by Swift 110 and is about 10 minutes long and carries a clean flag.
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The summary is, random talk about my laptops and the Linux distro's that are on them.
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Hello, this is Swift 110 and today, we'll be working with it
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with Ubuntu Mate.
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It wasn't that long ago that I gave Ubuntu Mate a try.
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And for whatever reason, I just didn't like it.
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Now the version of Ubuntu Mate, we'll be using today is 16.04 and if I'm not mistaken,
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it's a long term release, so not a problem there.
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But you know, it's amazing how my mind has changed about Ubuntu Mate and I guess maybe
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I was just so loyal, I would say, to Linux Mint that I didn't give Ubuntu Mate a fair
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try.
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So in that time, and it's been a period of several months at this point, I now have Ubuntu
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Mate on my X60, which is made by IBM.
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Now the X60 has a dual core, has it actually a core 2 Duo processor and it has a 120 gigabyte
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SSD in there.
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I find that putting an SSD, even in a laptop that's 11 years old, is a very good boost to
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it.
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It gives extra life to an old laptop and that's really what I'm about.
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I like taking things that other people don't want or don't feel are useful anymore,
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whatever reason, and making them productive again.
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That really appeals to me.
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Well, now before I go into the weeds too much, I thought I'd give you a little bit of
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the specs of that machine now, it's a core 2 Duo 120 gig SSD.
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It has 2 gigs of RAM in it.
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I plan at some point to actually increase that to 3 gigs of RAM due to its chipset.
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It has a limitation in which it can only address about 3 gigs of RAM anyway, so anything
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more would be uncivilized.
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Thank you Charles Barkley.
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Now that machine is running Ubuntu Mate.
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And that's what leads me to where I'm thinking, what made me change my mind about Ubuntu
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Mate.
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I like, first of all, this welcome menu, introduction, features, getting started, community, chat
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room, software, get involved, shop, and then the donate button.
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I like this, it immediately gets you to resources that'll get you going.
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I like that.
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Now what I could do, in fact, what I will do is compare this to Linux Mint.
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I've been using Linux Mint actually since early 2013, I knew of it years before, but didn't
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make the jump until I finally got tired of Ubuntu's crap regarding the Unity desktop environment.
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So I've been running on Linux Mint for all this time.
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And I've been pretty happy with it, it's on my PC, it's on many of my laptops.
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But believe it or not, I'm actually starting to prefer Ubuntu Mate better.
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One of the reasons that one of the irritations I've had with Linux Mint over the years
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is how slow the packages get updated and that's been cramping my style for a long time.
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So I won't completely, while I won't completely abandon Linux Mint, I am going to be using
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it less likely at this point.
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Ubuntu Mate, I'm going to install one more of my laptops, more of my machines.
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In fact, it's very well, I might end up going on my desktop at some point as I change
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things around.
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So in front of me, there's a Sony VIO.
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I'm going to use this Sony VIO running Ubuntu Mate.
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So it's not exactly, how do I put this?
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Ubuntu Mate on this particular machine is one of the hard drives, obviously.
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The hard drive I took from the X60 that I told you about, well, as I mentioned earlier,
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that has an SSD in it.
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The former drive that was in it, which is a 5400 RPM, 120 gig, or is it a 500, I don't
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know, hard drive.
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You know what?
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I can easily check this so that I can be accurate with what I'm saying and not sound stupid.
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All right.
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So let's go to the terminal.
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I, N, X, I, and it'll give me the hard drive 120 gigs, nice, pretty.
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All right.
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So let's do this comparison, shall we?
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Now there's a welcome screen on Linux Mint as well.
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There is an offer in this, a welcome screen there as well.
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Documentation, apps, drivers, multimedia, codex, forms, chatroom, getting involved in
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donations.
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So not terribly different, not terribly different from that at all, and that's nice.
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So the welcome screen's nice.
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The main difference that jumps out with me is regarding packages not being released in
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a timely manner.
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So either way, I can use either one of them, just fine.
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Well, a bunch of them I'll tell you just seems to have a little bit more than appeal to
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me at this point though.
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Now, let's talk about the Sony VIO, the Sony VIO EB series, and trying to think how
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much RAM is actually in it.
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I have, okay, my RAM is, what is it saying, 5,730, that makes no sense at all, it's using
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about 500 gigs, I mean, 500 megabytes of RAM right now.
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I'm not feeling it.
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Anyway, I took this hard drive that has a bunch of my take from another machine, and this
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is one of the benefits of Linux.
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I can just take it from another machine, take one hard drive from one machine, put it in
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another, Bob's Uncle, starts up just fine, love it.
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The only thing I've had an issue with regarding the Sony VIO, the trackpad can be a little
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wonky, I'm likely going to replace it, other than not perfect.
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So now, I'm looking at, first of all, I have this dark theme on here that goes really
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well with this black laptop.
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Let me be more specific about the Sony VIO.
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It's a Sony VIO VPC EB for it to FM there.
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I like the way the menu layout is, I'm using my tape, so not a terrible difference from
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what I was using, it's the next minute.
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There will be not really much of a difference, they're both based on Ubuntu, so not the biggest
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changes in the world, nonetheless, I'm happy with what I have here.
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But given what I've spoken about Ubuntu and my tape, I'm going to consider more about
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why I like it, and pretty much go from there.
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