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Did some shopping around in the Software Manager app (Mint’s version of the Microsoft Store) to see if I could find anything that caught my eye. Nothing really called out to me besides my GOAT Tuxpaint, but it wasn’t really that useful considering this laptop has no graphics tablet. Entries from now on might become fewer and less detailed since the big chunk of configuring is already done and Mint functions very similar to a normal Windows environment.
Time for some light gaming! And I mean light, light gaming. This poor thing only has 8 gigs of RAM, it’s no powerhouse! If I’m going to use this laptop for university, I have to choose a game that is both light and stupidly fun in order to pass the time. So I went for a Touhou game. Multiple, in fact. Now keep in mind, I’m a total newbie to the Touhou franchise; I don’t recognize many of the girls and even fewer by name and the only game I’ve managed to beat is Imperishable Night on easy mode.
Still, I think the games are super fun so I got three: Imperishable Night, Shoot the Bullet and Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom (the latter I only downloaded because Clownpiece apparently shows up in it). These aren’t meant to push the CPU to its limits, but I am interested in seeing how smoothly they can run on here.
… Okay, first problem encountered, I can’t run the executable file. It opens it in Archive Manager, meaning I can see what’s inside the .exe, but it doesn’t run the application itself. A quick Internet search tells me I’m supposed to go to Properties and allow the file to be executed, which makes sense now that I think about it, safety and whatnot. Hey, this isn’t working at all– Oh yeah, Wine. I forgot about Wine. A bit of messing around, and now I can run the games! They’re as smooth as I expected, so I’ll be keeping them in my hard drive for a while. Installed GIMP & Sublime Text and started coding the actual site this whole blog is going on. Also learned how to change the colors in the terminal ^_^ Here's what LABESTIA5000 looks like right now:
Today to test out LABESTIA I wanted to do something actually useful: I wanted to print out a few pages out of my cooking class’ cookbook document. I connected my printer through wireless connection and installed LibreOffice (plus VLC but that’s not important). I was honestly a bit surprised that it worked perfectly fine with Word documents? Call me cautious or just plain dumb, but I’m always half-expecting programs to not work with Microsoft file formats and the like. Anyway, I printed out the pages I needed and my printer didn’t throw a fit like it usually does. Hooray! I’m currently writing this part while sitting on the living room couch and it’s a very different experience than having to go to my PC desk (can you tell I’ve never had a laptop before?). Other than that, I’ve been doing a bit of maintenance on other parts of my website and writing on Google Docs.
My new laptop arrived today and I got to snooping around, turns out it came preinstalled with none other than Windows 11. Despite all my planning/research I hadn’t really decided on which Linux distro to use (though I had a USB with Arch flashed on it) or if I was gonna try dual-booting or not, but the thought of having to install Win10 on this 8GB RAM laptop made me feel bad for it so Linux only it is. I also quickly decided to get Mint Cinnamon instead of Arch or another distro since this computer’s meant for university work, so I needed something with a lot of support ^_^. I went through the installation process normally, installed the drivers, set up Firefox syncing, yadda yadda. I like setting up my computers with a specific theme, so this one was “EVIL FIRE SKELETON SKULL”– and thus my first ever laptop was baptized as LABESTIA5000 (THE BEAST 5000 in Spanish). Isn’t she cute?
