[Lilug] Random comments about Linux as main system

[Rob Wilkens]

	These are random comments about running Linux as a primary
system, only because (to me) the  list seems quiet.. Forgive me if most
conversation is in IRC or something like that, i haven't set up
xirc/xchat (whatever it's called) yet.

	I've been experimenting with running Linux as my primary system
(not only, there are things i still need a commercial system for) for
about 4-5 days now..  I'm running fedora core 25 or possibly the
development version (not on purpose!)

	Seems like, as expected i guess, when most of what you're doing
is web and e-mail, Linux meets those needs well enough.

	I heard that Microsoft was working on a new alpha of Skype for
Linux, in general i don't video chat, but i went ahead and installed
that anyway.  Any kind of commercial app like that is probably worth
having, notably if it's free.  It''d be great if i could get the true
Microsoft Office apps (or at least Word) on Linux, even if really for
my needs LibreOffice meets all those needs.  I know Microsoft has
Office365 but the other day when i tried using it, it kept giving me
errors just creating a blank word document.

	Would love if DropBox and/or OneDrive was supported.  I have my
own MyCloud drive, but i haven't yet figured out how to mount Windows
Shares (I know, or think, it's possible).  I suppose I can google how
to do that.  The funny thing is if i ssh into my MyCloud drive it runs
Linux inside, so there may be a way to nfs mount it or something like
that.

	Evolution's default install gave me issues with syncing
calendars, claiming my api key was out of uses until the next
day...  But I googled and found a fix for that (basically disassociate
my gmail account from my fedora/gnome account, then add the gmail
directly to evolution).

	I started playing with the kernel source for fun (just reading
it), i've never really done this before,  I extracted the source, built
from source, and booted the built kernel easy enough.  Next, i ran
"ctags -R ." from the base of kernel source so i could use tags 
("vi -t start_kernel" for example, then ":tn" until i found the right
one, or ":ts <tag>" to search for another <tag>).  The hard part for me
is not assuming my first guess at what the code is supposed to do is
what it actually does.  I ran into something i had to stare at for 30
minutes because i mis-guessed what it was intending to do (and it was
like 10 lines of code), though i have to admit i could've got back
those 30 minutes of my life if the code was only commented, but i
suspect Linus is against excessive comments.

-Rob
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