And so my journey into Linux continues. Yet again I managed to kill my OS. It was a slow death caused by conflicts between a few of the 5 desktops I had installed; it was technically running, though was pretty unstable. Wednesday was also the first day back at Uni and I was greeted with the pleasant surprise that we will be using a Linux OS in my comp-sci class in addition to learning python. This was one of the reasons that I decided to get back into it, the other involving a new plan to eventually build my own desktop when I have the space and money that will probably run ArchLinux as the OS and be my precious to stroke and love.

The only thing that had really been preventing me from really switching over was the fact that I couldn't get my tablet working and couldn't find a good paint program. When I upgraded to from 12.04 to 14.04, it updated my kernel to one that supports my tablet and now it works just by plugging it in and I found a halfway decent paint program. Configuration is another story because I have use weedwacker line as my nib and it throws off the pressure detection and I'm missing input for 2 of my 4 buttons, but that's another battle that is under way...

So, this is a very small success on my way to break away from commercial products and bask in the light of Open Source and GNU computing! To commemorate the success, I did my first doodle as a test. It needs a LOT of work to get Linux+MyPaint to work like Windows+SAI, but it has started! I might post some of the junk tests in my FA scraps if I feel like it, but will be continuing to work mostly in SAI.

This does lead to a slight shoutout for anyone who knows a good cross platform free paint program or GUI based tablet configuration tool.

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14462262/ (sorry, not posting on any other sites, too lazy)