new laptop! \o/

[kaberett]

Even I am ... mostly moved in.

I need to copy some e-mail data over from the one account I can only access via POP, and Mate is not behaving... brilliantly... in terms of "the touchpad doing what I tell it to" or "letting me have All the screen resolution" or for that matter "doing sensible things with system themes and program icons", but it's not yet annoyed me enough to cause me to seriously consider switching away from it.

I have not yet applied stickers but thankfully A's is already covered with stickers so it is possible to tell the two of them apart while closed.

It is as ever an enormous relief to not be stuck with the Sad Dell as my primary machine. Long may it continue.

(The delay in getting all the way set up -- it arrived on Thursday -- was in no small part that I had blithely trusted A when they told me they'd got the hard drive out of the previous laptop. I had not gone digging around in it myself and I was not in great brain day-of so when I hit the point where New Laptop wouldn't boot off Old Drive, and the partitions made no sense to me, so I put it to one side to be an A problem when they got back from away-for-work.

... they stared in utter perplexity for A Bit, in a "this surely could never have possibly worked" way, and eventually went "... I'm going to check whether there's another hard drive in the old laptop, because that's the only way I can think of that this could have worked, ever."

... they had indeed ADHDed an entire hard drive.)

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[kaberett]

... *facehands* in order to get the mouse working the way I want it to I just had to disable (via the GUI) both two- and three-finger click emulation. Now the right-click hardware button works, two-finger click still produces a right mouse click, and three-finger click emulates middle click. Thanks be to the Linux Mint forums, but also, A Wailing And Gnashing Of Teeth.

[hilarita]

WTF??? Glad it's working, but ????