How to Cairo like the Blog's Admin (Blog Post No. 44)

    So far, we've looked at how to do many different things using Linux Distros like the blog admin, but now you've noticed today's Blog Post Title. "Hold on... How to Cairo Like The Blog's Admin?"

 

      You can quit playing the "Huh.mp4" video whenever. We're going to explain what exactly the Cairo I'm talking about is, and what this means for you. It's important that you essentially understand this and don't continue like I just wrote this stuff down to utterly confuse/mislead you. 

     Now, since this blog post is in no means talking about the city in Egypt, but rather, a Desktop Environment that it is named for, we will cover how to install it. 

    Of course, you will realize that this is pretty self-explanatory. Why? Well, we're going to continue discussing this further, as we continue in today's blog. 

    First of all, you will need Windows 7 installed at minimum in order to run Cairo. This means, that we can run Cairo on a Windows System such as Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, and even 11. In order to install Cairo, we will need to download it from the World Wide Web, first and foremost. 

      OK, since we've opened it in the Google website, we'll just click the 1st link that it displays on the Search Result page. The search result page will likely have some video tutorials on how to install it, but sometimes people are too slow for the video tutorial. We'll go to the first link to download the Cairo Desktop environment. 

Download Cairo

     It's obvious at this point what we're doing. We are "Downloading Cairo" from the Cairo Shell webpage. If we are downloading it on an OS prior to Windows 10 version 1709, then we will also need .NET 4.7.1 (or later.) 

    When we have installed the .NET Framework 4.7.1 or later (unneeded on Windows 10 post-version 1709 or any version of Windows 11), then we can just go ahead and Download Cairo. Once that's finished, we'll just install it. 

    Now we're going to install Cairo Desktop Environment, which is pretty self-explanatory. If we are running this on Windows 8 or later, we can make disabling File Explorer completely optional. We will turn off Windows Explorer in 7 since this version of Windows was the "final" version of Windows to be shipped from the "overlords" at Microsoft without the use of UWP and Windows Store technologies. 

   Alternatively, if you are sure you are not going to be using Windows Store apps or the UWP in your Windows 10 or 11 deployment application, you may also disable the Explorer. However you should leave it unchecked if you are running Windows 10 or 11, if you do run either of those two Operating Systems and you need to use the UWP services or apps from the Microsoft Windows Store. (You can also just use Linux to use website versions of the apps you will be disabling in Windows.) 

   When you're ready to continue, press Install on the dialog. If your install crashes, it's obviously due to the .NET Framework not being available. Just install the correct version of the .NET Framework & retry installation, if that is the case.

   However, if it continues to have issues in Windows 7, which is expected considering that we are trying to run an unsupported OS --- we may try the Windows 10 update. (Yes, some people still stupidly claim that Windows 10 cannot fix the problems that Windows 7 creates --- however, I'm more inclined to believe that people like that have their heads up their asses.) 

     I don't like seeing this particular screen (at all). But, sometimes these days, I have no choice but to set up this version. 

     I also hate Zoom meetings. Why I'm doing all these shitty Zoom meetings, is kind of beyond me, honestly. 

     I've pretty much decided that Zoom meeting for today is going to stop. I have had it up to here. >:( 

     But, wait. I can't let the fact I'm feeling angry right now just stop me from writing the blog on Cairo like the Blog's Admin. I'd be keeping everything stuck in the middle if I did that. So, I should go, oh oh oh oh, anger control, anger control. Focus, focus, I'm okay I'm okay. 

    I've decided I'm just going to not let the fact I had to hear some uncomfortable truth not bother me. 

 

(I'll just walk away from this.) 

   As it turns out, Cairo Desktop Environment apparently is an unrecommended app, as according to the "overlords of Microsoft." 

 

    I am just going to ignore this warning and install Cairo anyway. (Besides, I would likely do exactly the same thing on Windows 11 because the 11 Start menu is what made me leave Windows for Linux in the first place.) 

    As you can see here from this screenshot, this is the Cairo desktop environment working. It can shut down your computer when you are finished working with Windows --- so you do not need to shut down Windows using the File Explorer's Start menu.

    Now I'm done with this --- probably shouldn't have juggled a Zoom meeting with trying to write this blog post today. Oh well, it's not like it really, absolutely matters anyway, since I'm going to be taking these blog posts down once and for all at a presently undetermined date at the future.

You've probably noticed a pattern starting to form with my blog posts lately... (Post No. 43)

    And to be fair, that's okay. For now, we will just interrupt the "basic installation instructions of Linux for just like the Administrator", (We'll be returning to those later.) And then mention a specific challenge of beating the Gran Turismo games that I will be focusing on --- not that there are specific Gran Turismo challenges for each game from GT 1 to 7 (This includes Sport, by the way), but one particular challenge which pretty much states, "I must beat Gran Turismo 1 using nothing but either Japanese cars or the Dodge Viper GTS/RT 10/GTS-R." 

  

  Why a rule like this, you might ask? Well, it's simple really. There are probably only six total British cars, (Aston Martin DB7 Coupe, including the one that you can buy at the Aston Martin dealer in the game, as well as the Special Color which sometimes drops as a Megaspeed Cup prize car --- which the latter of which I'm not counting, as it's essentially the same car, and by definition, it also accepts the same livery color as the dealership purchase version, the Aston Martin DB7 Volante, The TVR Cerbera, TVR Griffith, (Both the B340 and Griffith 500, as they may look like the same car, the game lists them as separate models, so they are two cars completely different from each other.) and the TVR Cerbera LM Edition race car. 

   American cars, excluding the Vipers which I've mentioned (already) are also not that well represented in Gran Turismo 1. Why? Well, the proof is in the Gran Turismo 1 disc itself, depending on which region version you have. If you have the Japanese version, You have the Dodge Viper GTS/RT-10 and Copperhead Concept Car (All Dodge cars are listed as Chrysler), and Both of the 1996 C4 Corvette Coupes and the Camaro Z28. (The 30th Anniversary one is available in Simulation mode as a hidden prize car for beating the Clubman Cup.) and the 427 Corvette Stingray is absent completely from the Arcade Mode in that version of the game. Whereas in the International Releases, (NTSC U/C, and PAL) the 1967 Corvette Stingray is present there, too. 

    So, I plan on taking up this challenge in the NTSC U/C disc which is what I have in real life, and then perhaps sharing the data I have collected from the gameplay at a later date, on a future posting somewhere. Also, the majority of my race wins will probably be behind the wheel of a Japanese car of some kind.