[Motorola Droid RAZR] Ohmster:
Yeah, I remember when you could get 4 desktops on Windows. It was clumsy and did not work very well. In Linux, it is "so perfect" that I use it all the time. One desktop is browser, maybe file manager, another terminal window doing system command stuff, pictures, video, or music on another, email on another. And it is so easy to manage. With Compiz-Fusion, I get thumbnail previews like Windows 7 does when you hover over a task bar icon that I can click to go to, hold Shift-Ctl-Mouse1 and move mouse to "rotate the cube" (desktops are configured like the faces of a cube or polygon with as many faces or desktops you want.) to any desktop you want.

What does "NSFW" mean? You want me to blur out the breasts of the "Nude Olympic Gymnast"? I could do that, I do not want to violate the TOS here at XDA and it is done in good taste, not to "be naughty" or anything.

I am making great progress on this Linux machine and am having SO much fun with it. The great thing with Linux is that you can run it on old hardware not fit for modern Windows and it works great! If you do install it on a modern wiz bang PC, then boy oh boy will you have a blast with it. I like to install it permanently rather than dual boot or use a live disc to boot to. You take an older PC that you upgraded from and install Linux. Put it on your home LAN so you can share files with it, open a terminal window to it, run the apache web server so you can show files and even web pages or sites to friends if you change your router to forward port 80 or enable "web server" to that IP address machine. I do this all the time because I do websites. One of my newest projects is to figure out how to put Captcha on a web form page for a client. Everybody hates Captcha but with robots sending such massive amounts of spam, you really have to install it one way or another.

I know how to make web form pages where the visitor fills in things like name, email address, drop down boxes for issues, and text box to type in a message, then a clear or submit button and it will really email that information to the destination email. I can even require valid fields be filled in like email that must contain the @ symbol or phone that should only be numbers or the form will not submit. But Captcha is new. I can get it to show on the page but apparently, it does not work the same. Client side (Web page) creates the captcha, but the server side script must validate the information and then submit the form, at least I think so. With my own Linux apache web server, I can both create the form or use my existing one, and experiment with the php or other script on the server side to see what works. Then, if I am lucky, I can upload this server side script to GoDaddy to make the form work with Captcha.

If you have an old machine and some time for fun, you should try it. I am using an old Pentium 4 "dual thread", not even dual core! It does have an nVidia video card in it and 4Gb of RAM but that is not important. If you are afraid it will be over your head, take an easy distro, they are all free, and install that. Ubuntu is one of the easiest distributions there are and they "work right out of the box", meaning you will have sound and network without having to fuss to get it working. Or drop in a Live CD or DVD so you can boot to it and play, but you cannot save files that way, install anything, or have real fun with networking.

Dude, if you have an older PC that you do not use anymore, or even buy an older PC at a garage sale or eBay for next to nothing, go for it! If you want to try out something really easy, grab the Ubuntu Live DVD. Since it is a DVD, you will get "everything" it has to offer right there on the disc and it will not change or alter your PC in any way. You CAN save files to your hard disk if you want. If drive C is all you have, make an Ubuntu folder for it right in the C drive, like this:

C:\Ubuntu

Go SLOW at first. Just use Gedit to make a text file in your Ubunu folder and call it test.txt or whatever. Some earlier versions of Linux had a very difficult time writing to an NTFS file system, thanks to Microsoft and their proprietary BS about their own file system. It was "Experimental" at one time, and LOTS of years ago, I enabled this "Experimental" write to drive C feature and thought all was well. ...until I peeked into my Windows folder one day in Windows and saw all of these scrambled files and folders! That was a LONG time ago, though. Now, I open my PC over the LAN and write directly to the folder of choice. One thing of NOTE, writing directly to an NTFS drive on the Linux computer is WAY different than doing it over a LAN as a shared folder because the actual Windows machine is doing the writing to disk, not the actual Linux system. I do not have an NTFS hard drive on this new Linux machine so I cannot test it right this moment, although I am quite sure that issue has been fixed by now. Not experimental anymore. I *do* have lots of hard drives laying around so I will put one in the Linux box just to play with and format it in a Windows 7 machine so it has a current NTFS file system on it and see how it goes. Extra hard drive space is always good to have but an NTFS formatted hard drive is pretty useless on a Linux machine unless you use the same machine for Windows. Better to just play with it for a while, see how well it works, then format it as ext3 or ext4, a real Linux file system.

Gosh I remember decades ago if you ever "pulled the plug" on a running Linux machine, what damage it would do to the file system! Now ext3 and ext4 are Journaling file systems so they recover from a sudden dismount with no fuss at all. :)

Not to mention you can compile your own cm11, 12, or any other rom you want, right on your own PC! First thing is to "just do it" to learn how, install and run it on your phone. If you download the source of the very sam rom you are running, then you get the exact same thing. But that is okay. Because you are not only learning how to do it, but are prepping your computer with the necessary packages to do this sort of work. Then, you can have REAL FUN by compiling kernels with options YOU want but are not available in the current binary download. You might want support for a different kernel, you might want to enable the Notification LED with screen on, you might want anything and once you get good at it, people will be asking YOU to please make roms for them! :D [MENTION=5711114]Bobcus Leper[/MENTION] has been doing this a long time on his laptop. Whether or not he can specialize the roms I don't know yet. That takes time to learn and get good at. :angel:

...so what is with the "might wanna NSFW that screenshot"? You want me to blur the boobies? :p