<p dir="ltr">There are these things called rewritable cd/dvd's when you really need one, you just write over your least useful disc.</p>
<p dir="ltr">That's pretty much all I buy <br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 21, 2014 11:34 AM, <<a href="mailto:kitepilot@kitepilot.com">kitepilot@kitepilot.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Sounds like you should hate DVD drives instead.<br>
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Nawh, that wasn't the problem.<br>
I didn't have blank DVDs.<br>
I live in the middle of the boondocks and it is an hour-and-a-half round-trip journey to go get them.<br>
Of course that if I had known then what I know now...<br>
ET <br>
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On Jun 21, 2014 11:10 AM, <<a href="mailto:kitepilot@kitepilot.com" target="_blank">kitepilot@kitepilot.com</a>> wrote: <br>
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I hate Unity too...<br>
And/or the M$-like bloated KDE.<br>
Because my long hated (and mostly reliable) Linux Mint went out of<br>
support, I decided to go with what I hate the least: Xubuntu.<br>
But I could not burn the DVD, so I installed it on VirtualBox, transferred<br>
the system to my real box, fixed up the MBR and booted my shinny new<br>
Xubuntu.<br>
No sound...<br>
Darn...<br>
After fiddling with it for a day I decided: screw it, I'll go Debian Xfce.<br>
So I got my trusty net-install CD and...<br>
It said that it needed 'proprietary firmware' from Realtek, but WAIT!<br>
It also said that I could install from the 'proprietary firmware DVD'!<br>
Which (of course) I could not burn either...<br>
So I installed it on VirtualBox, transferred the system to my real box,<br>
fixed up the MBR and booted my shinny new Debian! :-)<br>
No sound...<br>
And not second monitor...<br>
Darn... :(<br>
After fiddling with it for a day I decided: screw it, Mint worked before,<br>
I may as well give it a F$%#ING try (I *NEED* a box!)...<br>
Of course I could not burn the DVD!!!!<br>
So I installed it on VirtualBox, transferred the system to my real box,<br>
fixed up the MBR and booted my shinny new Mint 17 Xfce.<br>
And now everything works!<br>
But I am hard headed and now I am facing years (I installed LTS) of hating<br>
MINT!!!!<br>
Grrrrrrrrr...<br>
3 wasted days later, and with a fully functional system that I hate, I am<br>
seriously considering to end it all and hang myself from a pumpkin tree...<br>
I warned you that it was a useless and meaningless rant!<br>
So there...<br>
ET<br>
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