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Installing Xubuntu 19.04 on my Thinkpad T430s


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
The Xubuntu configuration tool only lets you set 1 program for both types of media, so I've unchecked it from auto-launching parole when media is inserted.

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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