Raspberry Pi

So, I finally received my Raspberry Pi that Jason ordered for me. The one I ordered will be here in 12 weeks. Anywho, I excitedly grabbed my HDMI cable, found an 8gb SD card, borrowed Jason's wireless keyboard (which I replaced later along with getting a 32gb card), and proceeded to geek out.

First step was getting the image for the OS. I listened to the suggestion and grabbed the Debian image. Hmm...how do I get this on the card. TO TEH GOOGLE! Ah, I see...I have to download a program that will image the card. Complete!

Plug card into the PI and boot up. Success! Found the login on the site and I am at a prompt. Hmm...what is the root password? TO TEH GOOGLE!

Root password "changed"! There actually wasn't a root password.

"apt-get update"! Hmm...not enough space on my disk. TO TEH GOOGLE! Another site explains how to fill up the SD card since the image creates a tiny drive. Easy enough!


What the fuck!?
printf "d\n3\nd\n2\nn\np\n2\n157696\n\nw\n" |sudo fdisk -cu /dev/mmcblk0
sudo shutdown -r now
And then:
sudo resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p2

Complete!

Create my username! I actually know that one! Complete!

startx

Hmm. Not too fond of the xwindows version. I shall try full fledged Gnome!

apt-get install gnome

Pages and pages of scrolly stuff saying it will install everything including the kitchen sink from the house I grew up in. Wait a while. Wait more. Notice it is stuck on some gconf2 thingy. Hmm. Doesn't appear to want to finish. Oh...there is the error. Not finished. Well, I shall install things I know.

apt-get install vim

gconf2 error

apt-get install emacs

Hmm...gconf2 yet again. It appears that the Gnome thing fucked up gconf2 and everything in the fucking world requires it to be installed correctly! New IMAGE!

First step.
Second step.
Third step.
Skip gnome.

At this point I can't remember what I did to screw it up again, but I did. NEW IMAGE!

Damnit. Screwed it up again. NEW IMAGE!

I decide I want Spotify. That goes about as smoothly as the nutsack on a chainsaw. NEW IMAGE!

I shall try to use Synaptic to get Spotify working. NEW IMAGE!

Decide to try Arch Linux. Create image, plug in card, type some shit, I have no idea what this shit is, power off, remove card, plug in Debian.

The Raspberry Pi is currently back in the static bag. I needed the charge cable for my phone upgrade. The phone upgrade that went ever-so-slightly smoother than the Raspberry Pi fiddling.

I have come to the conclusion that Linux geeks are assholes and they hate everyone. They tell everyone that they use Linux...like, incessantly....all the time. They tell everyone how much better it is. They explain how much Microsoft and Apple suck. They make Apple fanboys look like "meh?". They gloat about "open source", GNU, command line, rebuilding this and that, never rebooting, running Linux on a circuit board powered by potatos, how everything cool is based on Linux including electricity, the time-space continuum, Higgs-Boson, and where babies come from. However, they make it nearly impossible for anyone to actually use the shit. Dependencies, recompiling, make, make install, new kernel, wrong kernel, repositories, edit this file and that file, source, free, non-free, su, sudo, grep, fuck, shit, damn, hell, piss.

I will get around to it another day. For now, the Raspberry Pi shall remain in the bag. I just want to click on icons for a while.