[GLLUG] Hi all.. question about hardware purchasing..

[Bilal Qayum]

On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Hearns, John n Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at
12:15 PM, Hearns, John <john.hearns at mclaren.com> wrote:
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> > But I'm pretty annoyed by the lack of decent hardware options for
> > someone looking to run Linux with minimum fuss and hassle. There are
> > some vendors who do ship hardware with Linux pre-installed but seem to
> > be based stateside with high shipping rates, or only stock a fairly
> > limited and pricey range.

 I think it is worth stating that you are referring to laptops here.
 There are other types of systems running Linux out there....


You are right about that, apologies. Desktop machines running Linux
seem to be fine, I've only ever had a minor quibble with an nVidia
driver once. But laptops seem to be a lot quirkier, for me anyway.

I'm currently running an Easynote Butterfly S (refurb with only Intel
on-board graphics) and it's generally fine running Ubuntu 10.04 to
current, Linux Mint and Fedora releases in the same timeframe. But
hibernate/suspend is broken in subtly different ways every release,
touch-sensitive controls used to work but no longer do, the key to
toggle trackpad on/off works to toggle off but then needs reboot to
turn trackpad back on and a fair few other issues too. Basically,
anything largely laptop-specific tends to be wonky.

That said, if anyone needs a 6-hour battery life and isn't bothered by
little niggles, take a look for this model on ebay or gumtree, etc. It
does run exceptionally well and works out-the-box with no tweaking
needed.