Built a computer for my boss last night out of scavenged parts. Had everything but ram which was at the office. Took it in, set it up, and no adapter for the monitor. Poke around the office, and find a dell carcass that's missing just about everything, but has a motherboard which was the problem part on his old machine. Swap all the parts over, and it's working good. I still want to get the machine I built working. It's better than the one I setup.
I had lubuntu(used to be xubuntu) installed on it, but I wasn't really digging it. It's stripped down but still kinda heavy for the included features. I put kubuntu on it to try it out. If that doesn't work. I'll go back to xubuntu.
My machine is xubuntu i386 which was discontinued, so I can't upgrade anymore. I'm deciding on either a fresh install of xubuntu amd64, or debian amd64(that's what I use at home). Dunno yet. I might just buy a whole new computer for work to save the old one. Once those computers are all dead, our autocad licenses will be also. Someone stole the list of keys and the installation media, and it's expensive to replace. I don't need autocad for what I do, though a couple features would be nice. I still need to look into that more.
Currently sitting in front of a fire(been a nice cool spring), and trying to decide what dinner will be. It's been a pretty decent day.