phragmentation

I finally upgraded my old Dell Latitude C610 laptop from 6.06 to 8.04. I’d been wanting to for a while now but never had the time. Yesterday I saw the offer in my updates and thought, sure… Then it said this will take 8 hours and download 1 GB of data. Eeks. Oh well, I was going to the gym anyway, go for it. The upgrade was about as painless as could be. A couple prompts to overwrite some customized config files, but nothing important. The only changes I’d made were to try to get the monitor resolution to something that my 19″ NEC wouldn’t complain about. Once all the downloading was finished, scripts ran for a while, and when I checked it this morning, it was done!

Looks pretty much the same, even saved all my custom theme settings. Oh, except that it now supports 1280×1024 resolution! And, it’s still much faster than my windows xp IBM T43p.