cheap laptop suggestions that will boot to ubuntu without hassle

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 28 November 2019 09:10:10 Bret Busby wrote:

> On 28/11/2019, Mike Marchywka <marchywka at hotmail.com> wrote:
> > I had previously been concerned with booting from syslinux or grub
> > with older computers
> > such as e-machines. This new Dell Precision with uefi seemed to work
> > well with Ubuntu
> > installed by Dell so I never fiddled with it once determining that
> > the USB sticks will
> > boot too ( Dell had originally been pushing kernels until efi
> > partition filled up but it
> > looks like they fixed that much ). With all the brew-ha-ha about
> > holiday deals,
> > and remaining interest in using "lo tech" or obsolete machines in
> > niches, I looked around amazon briefly and found this older model
> > asus for 170 USD, ( If they had a "cite" button or supported BoMTex,
> > I could just paste a cool biblio or bill-of-materials like
> > description designed by them lol)
> >
> > https://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Ultra-Thin-Processor-L203MA-DS04-Microso
> >ft/dp/B07N6S4SY1?ref_=Oct_DLandingS_D_b59e35aa_62&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER
>
> That link goes to killer robots that prevent access.
>
Works fine in FF here.

> Amazon HAS changed, and apparently now is something to be aavoided,
> apart from all of the other published reasons for avoiding it.
>
> Is "brew-ha-ha" the brouhaha that results from people being full of
> brew?

That likely depends on the brews alky content. ;-)
>
>
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> Bret Busby
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>
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Cheers, Gene Heskett
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