Dell to Sell Linux Laptops

[tim-from-pa]

High time.

Seriously, just burn your own OS for free and install it on an old (not real old) computer because the price tag is still high on these Linux laptops.

In my case, I have a Dell Inspiron (2006) that got a Windows Virus on Vista and we could not find the recovery disks. The computer was useless and ready for the trash heap (as most Microsoft users are well known to do fairly often due to slowing up or a virus i.e. "let's buy another computer"). But then I got the idea to install Ubuntu on it and works like a champ.

My only gripe with Ubuntu is that it won't run flash on this clunker I'm typing on now, and only certain videos work, and on the laptop seems to freeze oftentimes when I play a video but I believe it's hardware related and not the OS fault. In addition, Adobe is being banal about working with Linux and don't support it right. they finger point at each other. But Linux is too much on top of things constantly correcting problems with constant updates. If it was them, they'd be fixed by now.

You have to understand --- I'm running the newest version of Ubuntu on a 10-year-old and 6-year-old computer. Can't do that with a Mac or Microsoft, despite the former of the two being a good OS as well.

Here's the article:
http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/18/dell-gives-linux-laptops-another-chance/

 

[mint-debian]

Linux rocks.

I prefer Debian, as it appears to be less "bulky". But I am using Mint Debian Edition because of the peculiarities of my wireless.

There are so many distributions available now, with many different desktop environments, that just about anybody can make the switch, for free.

 

[tim-from-pa]

Linux rocks.

I prefer Debian, as it appears to be less "bulky". But I am using Mint Debian Edition because of the peculiarities of my wireless.

There are so many distributions available now, with many different desktop environments, that just about anybody can make the switch, for free.

Yeah, when I get more hardware around here, I will one day try other distros. I only have experience with Knoppix and Ubuntu. I trained a little with Red Hat when I was attending computer classes, but they were more interested in getting into the command lines and terminal stuff and I did not have opportunity to try too much of the GUI, but I did like what little I used.

Right now our online stuff consists of a Nook (Android OS), my wife's Mac (won't touch that), a Microsoft XP Pro for her doctor's work (we need Windows to run his program), this Dell Laptop with Ubuntu, and my old 10-year-old clunker also running Ubuntu, so I don't have a lot open right now. This laptop works too well for me to try, even with dual boot, something else I'm so relieved from Microsoft issues that I don't want to throw a monkey wrench in the works now that everything's humming.

I'm not really all that interested in OS's per se, I just want a computer without the attitudes.

 

[Lewis]

Hmmmm, that is good news