pc/laptop

[Ilija Milicevic]

By the way, I would just go down your laptop's list of specs to see how they
play with Ubuntu.. The biggest will be graphics and wireless.. You should
also check suspend/resume.. Everything else should work just fine.
Actually, I'd start by googling "ubuntu your_laptop_model" Chances are that
there will be a bunch of articles on how to install (stupid-easy) and what
works, needs a tweak, doesn't work.
With my laptop, suspend/resume didn't work and took a bit over a year until
the NVidia driver and the hardware handling made it work. HDMI sound didn't
work last time I checked, but I've been using a little nettop (Aspire Revo)
as a media player and with it, it works like a charm. Built in mic also
didn't work, but that one got fixed in short order.
By the way, don't rely on wireless when installing Ubuntu. With my chipset,
you need to download and install the proprietary broadcom driver (it's
pretty much automatic but you need to be connected via ethernet cable to be
able to do it).

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Tony Yarusso <tonyyarusso at gmail.com> wrote:

> "desktop edition" just means it comes with a graphical interface, as
> opposed to the text-mode alternate installer or server edition.
>
>  - Tony
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