Okay, I like Ubuntu… or at least I did… well, I still do… it’s complicated. I like all the new features of Hardy Heron, but it seems to come at the price of performance. I can almost go so far as to say my Dell C400 running OpenSUSE 11 outperforms my desktop running Hardy Heron.
My laptop is a Pentium M @ 1.2 ghz w/512mb RAM. My desktop is an AMD64 @ 2.2 w/1.5gb RAM.
WTF.
… and don’t get me started on when I had HH running on my laptop. It was totally useless for just about anything useful. Not even running XFCE could save the day.
That said, I’m downloading Linux Mint with high hopes — but not expecting miracles, as it’s based on Ubuntu.
I just StumbledUpon a new and interesting pandora-like music descovery tool that lets you more finely tune what you’re getting. It’s called Musicovery. Musicovery lets you select your “mood” of music in four quadrants: Dark, Energetic, Positive and Calm in an X/Y pad for a smooth blend between all four. Then you select genres of music you’d like this playlist to be comprized of. Perfect. Right now I’m in a blend of mostly positive calm elacto and jazz music.
This has been making my night of coding much nicer. My regular music list is… eclectic. When you go from the airy ambient sounds of Woob directly to Coal Chamber it tends to throw you off a bit.
Not even Pandora or AudioScrobbler has given me this much musical pleasure. Being a creative person, music deeply affects my stress level while coding. I’ve found that certain blends of music really get me going good, but with today’s genre-bending bands and styles you can’t always rely on a single artist to model after or a tag to give you that nice blend. Musicovery is most comparible to services that allow you to steam by tag, but still works a little more intelligently than tags.
Give it a shot. Especially if you dig Pandora or similar services.
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