Linux-friendly laptops

[Owen Thomas]

Indeed, I only upgraded. Perhaps I should try to boot via USB (this laptop
doesn't have a CD), and if that seems to work, I'll install afresh.

On 13 July 2017 at 20:40, Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:

> Owen,
>
> Did you do an upgrade, or a fresh install of 16.04?
>
> I did something similar with the Dell XPS-13 'Developers edition' which
> had 14.04 installed. But Dell had added various bits of their own which
> meant upgrading never worked properly. I eventually, did a complete fresh
> install of 16.04 and that works fine. To Dell's credit, the bits they had
> added to their pre-installation they also submitted for inclusion in the
> standard release, hence the 16.04 install just worked.
>
> To test, you could try booting 16.04 from a live CD and see what works and
> what doesn't.
>
> Regards,
> Tony.
>
> On Thu, 2017-07-13 at 20:32 +1000, Owen Thomas wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, it seems that I had been sold on a Dell Latitude E5570
> laptop with Ubuntu 14.4 "preinstalled". When I tried updating to 16.4, I
> lost my sound. I can get it back by running alsamixer from a terminal and
> activating the speaker channel manually but I have to do this every time I
> restart my laptop. I seem to be having problems installing Adobe Flash
> plugin.
>
> I think I have a Latitude E5570 that has an Ubuntu somewhere between 14.4
> and 16.4. I fear that I won't be able to upgrade to the next LTS.
>
> <sob>
>
> On 13 July 2017 at 20:05, Dr Rainer Woitok <rainer.woitok at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Eero and others,
>
> On Thursday, 2017-07-13 06:59:23 +0300, Eero Volotinen wrote:
>
> > ...
> > Current options are:
> >
> > ASUS G751JT (2 of these, possibly 3)
> > Dell M6700 Covet
>
> Does anybody have  any experience with the  Germany based company Tuxedo
> Computers (https://www.tuxedocomputers.com)?
>
> Sincerely,
>   Rainer
>
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