pc/laptop

[raymond house]

I agree llija, my pc is a Dell vostro 220 and it's not on the list and I
have been using Ubuntu since 2 years with no problems!

On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Ilija Milicevic <engr3337 at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's not absolutely necessary.. Just doing the homework on the laptop
> generally tells you what works and what doesn't. However, it is nice to
> support the hardware to put consumer pressure on the OEM's and generally the
> price ballpark is the same. I bought mine with Vista pre-installed, but I
> wasn't planning on running GNU/Linux on it. Vista's instability and the fact
> that it didn't run some of my favorite packages from the XP days finally
> motivated me to give GNU/Linux another shot and this time around (under
> Hardy), Ubuntu was usable enough to be more attractive than winblows. It
> only got better since then.
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:46 AM, raymond house <raymondh40 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I just want to add that the laptop was a gift that my daughter got, had I
>> known I would have suggested they chose won from the Ubuntu certified
>> hardware list.  Ray
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 9:56 AM, raymond house <raymondh40 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Yes, after reading all I could find I came to the same conclusion as you
>>> llija, thanks,  Ray
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 9:49 AM, Ilija Milicevic <engr3337 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yeah, there isn't much info on P300 out there, so I'd recommend eating
>>>> the Winblows tax and running it under dual boot, unless you have an extra
>>>> hard drive lying around. Not much solid info on Toshibas, especially P300
>>>> out there. Most of the info is for older versions before the way they
>>>> changed the way Ubuntu handles hardware and did a f***load of bug fixes. I'd
>>>> be cautiously optimistic. If nobody's complaining while running a newer
>>>> version, everything could run out of the box...
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 8:58 AM, raymond house <raymondh40 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Thank you all for all the helping info you have given me, this laptop
>>>>> is a Toshiba satellite p300 for my daughter. What I will do is install
>>>>> Ubuntu along side of Widows 7 and with time we will see if all the hardware
>>>>> works ok with Ubuntu and then dump the other OS.  Ray
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Ilija Milicevic <engr3337 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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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