centos7 the good
pretty much the first thing i did after installing centos7 was install chrome. once i got it working, i removed firefox. cause why would you need two browsers? installing stuff on centos7 is pretty easy. yum does all the work. sometimes there are pre-requisites. which you need to just pray to google. and hope for the best. i like listening to music. there's no itunes for linux. but there's amarok. which can use my itunes music library no sweat. setting up the playlist the way i wanted was a matter of negotiating an unfamiliar user interface. blech. but it seems to be picking an album at random, playing all of it, then picking another album. and the last thing to install was skype. which failed miserably yesterday. but worked find today. no idea if the difference is version 4.3.0.37-2 instead of 4.3.0.37. or if it was the way i installed it. from terminal as timmer: su admin, su root, yum install skype. run from the applications menu. or if it was the way i ran it the first time - from applications -> internet -> skype. as opposed to the command line. so pretty much everything i need is working. woo hooty!