I've been using my Thinkpad T430s for game development using the GameMaker Studio engine (GMS). GMS only runs on Windows, though it can produce Linux and Mac OS X files. My desktop computer has 2 drives inside it, a 512GB SSD that I just upgraded from Ubuntu 18.10 to 19.04 and a 1TB drive running Windows 10. I already have both GMS 1.x and 2.x installed on my desktop computer. Additionally my desktop computer has 2 monitors, so it makes more sense that I use it for game development.
I've been uploading some Youtube videos to my @chaslinux account lately, always recording them in Linux. These have all been recorded on my desktop computer - which isn't located in the best place for recording. It makes much more sense for me to record on the laptop, so I'm switching the laptop to Xubuntu 19.04. Actually I should say switched because in the time it took me to start this post to this point the installation finished (actually it finished about 4 minutes before I got to this point).
I mentioned earlier that I already upgraded to Xubuntu 19.04 on my desktop, the only quirk I found, and it's not a bug, is the Xubuntu team have added Blu-ray support to the configuration area. When a Blu-ray is inserted into a computer with a Blu-ray drive it automatically launches whatever media player (parole in this case) is set. This might be cool for most people, but I rip my media using 2 different programs:
- Handbrake for DVDs
- MakeMKV for Blu-rays
So far I haven't run into any issues with Xubuntu 19.04, it's almost a shame it's a shorter release time. It feels slightly faster than Xubuntu 18.04 or 18.10 but this is probably my imagination and because every machine I run it on at home has an SSD.
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