[OT] Netbook and Ubuntu

[Tommy Trussell]

On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Pastor JW
<pastor_jw at the-inner-circle.org>wrote:

> On Tuesday, May 24, 2011 7:37:16 am Md Ashickur Rahman Noor wrote:
> > The best solution is when you purchase a notebook or netbook just keep a
> > bootable Ubuntu pendrive. Test it and purchase it.
>
> I find the best solution is to purchase one that has never had anything
> windoze
> ever run on it, ... or even run in the same room for that matter.  I don't
> feel I should have to purchase something for which I have absolutely no use
> or
> need just to get a workable machine.  If it has windoze, it is likely it
> also
> has cheap shortcut hardware on it.  It wastes too much of my time to have
> to
> remove the hardware from the computer and install the correct hardware.
>  Plus
> I have to try and clean the drive or buy a new one.  Just an all around
> losing
> proposition for me.
>
>
>
Sadly you may pay a premium to find a machine that has NEVER had Microsoft
Windows installed on it.

ALSO I recommend keeping a Windows partition for support issues. I bought an
ACER netbook on sale at Wal*Mart about a year ago and when it had problems
the support steps involved installing a Windows video driver. The driver
must have updated some firmware because it fixed the problem in linux too.
But that was the only time I let Windows connect to the Internet.

When the screen died suddenly and I sent the netbook in for warranty repair,
they wiped Ubuntu and restored Windows 7. But I didn't need to update the
video driver again, so I haven't needed to boot it again since it was
repaired.
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