Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Fri 10th Jul 2009 14:00 UTC
Linux Mint 7 "Gloria" was released a little while ago, so before it became too old of news, I thought I'd take a whack at experimenting with it for the sake of netbookers everywhere (and for myself, naturally). As I type this on gedit after about two weeks' use, let's just say that the system on my EeePC 1000 HE is, for the most part, rather glorious-- pun intended. As a bonus, I also got Google's Chromium browser to run on it, so keep on reading to find the section on that.
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But still disappointing to see hardware glitches and weird network issues right off the bat. I keep looking for that easy to use Linux that might tempt me to get a refurbished netbook - but I'd want to use the whole machine, not just some of it.
Hmm, perhaps what you should do is get a referbished netbook and ask someone who knows Linux to get everything working, or buy a netbook with Linux pre-installed and configured. As a general rule, all the hardware in these netbooks does work fine under Linux, the issues mostly being outdated or nonexistent drivers on the default installs. Windows is no different really, try installing a base winxp and see how ready it is to work out of the box (not talking about your restore disks here, but a flat out basic XP disk). Even Win7 on my 1000HE needed a driver for ACPI and to have Eeectl configured before everything worked as it should and, on balance, I actually needed to do less tweaking to Linux than I did to either Windows revision to get things working the way I wanted.
It mostly comes down to the sheer variations in hardware, although one would think that some could concentrate a bit more on Netbooks as they, at least, are similar internally. Still, neither Windows nor Linux have the ease of install that Mac OS X does for the simple reason that there is just so many hardware combinations.
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2006-10-06
But still disappointing to see hardware glitches and weird network issues right off the bat. I keep looking for that easy to use Linux that might tempt me to get a refurbished netbook - but I'd want to use the whole machine, not just some of it.
Still, I like the ease of use concept of Mint.