New record installing a laptop.

On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:51:34 -0600, ceed wrote:

Hi,

I purchased a new laptop this morning (after having done my usual research
making sure everything work with Linux).

How /do/ you do that BTW? I mean, how can you be 100% sure, and what
'Linux' is it compatible with?

I bought 3 netbooks at the exact same time. Linux worked on one but
locked up on shutdown on the others. Turns out they had 2 different
types of network card (and the lockup on shutdown was a known Linux
issue).

I had Ubuntu 12.04 fully updated,
all my software installed, and backup restored in under an hour!

That is pretty swift (depending on how much data you had to restore
etc).

My MFP
was working also.

I installed an HP C7000 series WiFi printer on a Vista laptop for a
mate today, gave me the ink status as well, neat. First time I'd used
that press_button_wifi_connection thing between the printer and
router. Worked first time.

I spent considerably more time getting my in-law's
Windows 7 laptop (same brand btw) ready a couple of weeks ago. Updates &
SP, printer drivers, malware removal tools and Office took much more than
an hour to get through.

But she /could/ then play all her games, use all the little utils that
are often Windows only and sync her iPod with the iTMS. ;-)

Then another 30 minutes removing crap-ware that
came with the laptop.

It can take a bit of time, removing the shovelware (and why I prefer
to install from scratch).


Cheers, T i m

p.s. Knowing you have more money than sense, fancy sending your old
'Linux approved' laptop over here (I'll pay the postage). ;-)