The Kohjinsha Kicks Ubuntu, Marries XP
I installed Windows XP on my Kohjinsha yesterday, finally gave up on Ubuntu. That’s after I’d gotten almost everything working on it though, the thing that made me switch was the poor performance of Flash.
Yes, Flash.
I’m no fan of Flash based websites, but I do enjoy watching YouTube videos, playing Dofus, and enjoy the niceties some people actually do with the platform. Flash isn’t only annoying preloading intros, you know.
And it didn’t perform well on Ubuntu, something I remembered since last time I ran the OS, which is a while ago so I figured Adobe had gotten their act together. That was a no, then.
Flash performance under Linux is a serious issue for the adoption rate, and certainly another problem with going opensouce OS. I want to be able to surf all sites, even sites having Flash ads, which can lag pretty hard should the ads be poorly constructed. That’s one of the main issues of course, the quality of some Flash elements and applications out there, but since it can work pretty well under Windows and OS X, then it should under a strong Linux distribution as Ubuntu as well.
Getting the Kohjinsha to perform as I wanted to under Windows XP wasn’t as easy as I’d expected though, but there were drivers to download at least. Nothing more than keyboard and touchpad worked out of the box, so luckily I could download the necessary drivers (at approximately 11 kB/s, total 48 MB or something). The only thing left to get to behave a bit better is WLAN, which isn’t enabled per default, which makes things a bit quirky. Same problem under Ubuntu, where I even had to install a separate program to even get it to connect to a WPA network. Still, I must say, without doing anything I got a lot more things working right away under Ubuntu. Problem is, the things that didn’t work wasn’t so easy to fix as under Windows XP.
Oh, and I’d say that Ubuntu was a tad faster than XP, although I really can’t back that up. It booted faster at least, but other than that, I guess it depends on what you’re doing.
I’ll do a more serious post about the Kohjinsha later on, with photos and perhaps a video. Right now, I’ve got way too much to handle on the private side, so you’ll have to wait. I can tell you one thing though: It’s a really cool little toy for sure!