Adventures in Switching to Linux

Everything in Linux don't always "just work" or work the way you would expect. It has improved tremendously over the years though. I was very pleasantly surprised early this afternoon when I got a message from Gnome that my mouse was low on battery power. The mouse itself shows a red LED but I don't always notice that until it is too late. I was mostly surprised by this because of the work I had to do to get all the buttons on my Logitech MX1000 working in Linux.


After a little searching, I see that we have the GNOME Power Manager to thank for this. That is the same application that tells you when your laptop battery is too low too. And now I need to take a break for a little while to let my mouse recharge a bit...