Ubuntu 12.04 Gaming

It comes down to money.  Ubuntu 12.04 does not support my aging ATI x1550 any more than Ubuntu 10.04 or 9.10 did.  So even though I have a Pixel Shader Model 3.0 card I can't use it to play Skyrim on Ubuntu or any derivatives.  Now you might say "Why not just use the older Ubuntu?" mainly it's because it's not supported or updated any more. Now that 12.04 is out 10.04 is not supported and that had 2 years of support on it.  The primary reason why the old Ubuntu works with the fglrx for my card is because both are out dated software.  The biggest issue I'm having is that it works perfectly fine in windows (any version), but just won't run on Ubuntu because of the stupid unsupported driver issue.  So now I've got to put more and more money away (not that I have any) just to get a supported card in order to not have to buy the next version of windows.  Well if you want to chip in for me to get a new video card, I put a new widget on the right .

Gaming with Ubuntu 12.04

That's right I installed ubuntu 12.04rc on my gaming machine. Why? because I needed something to do.  The job scene here is no good, I lost my subsidized housing forms, and I'm super bored!  Now then... where was I?  Oh yeah setting  up ubuntu to work with steam.  It works out of the box, and so did skyrim.     I got greedy though and wanted to eke out some better performance and stop the mouse from jumping around in skyrim, so I tried to install fglrx.  This was a very bad idea.  Now steam won't load, ubuntu internals keep crashing, and I've got to start over from scratch, making sure to upgrade immediately after install.  oh well, back to the grinder....

Heard it on the pipeline

It seems that an offer has been made on my house and he wants to keep me as a tennant.  This is good news, but I'm still worrying about the future.  I desperately need a job now, I'm not sure I can continue to pay my bills on what I have.  I've been trying all sorts of places to get a job, but I'm running up against the same walls: no recent experience, and no post-secondary education.  Maybe I'm just getting wrapped up in my own head here, but it seems right now that I will never get another job.