[HLUG] Linux Laptop

[dicegeorge at hotmail dot com]

I'd get one with windows and put Ubuntu10.04 as dual boot,
with automatic boot to Ubuntu,
use Ubuntu 99% of the time
but keep windows in case of hardware
which is difficult to talk with linux
like phones.

[g]



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From: "Steve Horsfield" <horsfield.steve at gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2011 3:09 PM
To: <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Cc: "hlug" <hlug at hlug.org.uk>
Subject: [HLUG] Linux Laptop

> I know this is a path well trod, but bear with me. I am trying to buy a
> laptop - not for me I hasten to add. The only suitable offering I have
> found with linux pre-installed is a 15.6" Lenovo from Linux Emporium in
> Coventry for £ 535. Alternatively I could walk into PC World and pick up 
> an
> equivalent Dell, for example, for £400 and overwrite the Microsoft OS. Is
> there actually no way to realize the advantage of an open source operating
> system?
>
> Steve Horsfield
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