[Sussex] Acer laptops

[aotley at gmail.com]

Hmm last time I had wireless issues I loaded up mint and it worked that was on a dell though ....
ok let's rephrase which budget laptops will run a distro any distro without issue ! 
I don't want to dual boot , just scrub windoz

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On 23 Jun 2011, at 10:12, Dominic Humphries <linux at oneandoneis2.org> wrote:

> Run away! Run away! 
> 
> :)
> 
> Okay.. my Acer laptop has actually done better than I expected, I must
> admit. It's 4 1/2 years old; the optical drive no longer works; the
> battery life is down to about one minute; and the power cord (as people
> who attended the last SLUG moot can testify) needs to be held in place
> in order to supply power.
> 
> I installed the latest ubuntu on it a few weeks ago, wifi was completely
> non-functional with the drivers it auto-installed. I replaced the
> drivers, and I can now SEE networks but not connect to any of them. (By
> contrast, I can boot it into Windows and the wifi works fine)
> 
> I'm sure I can eventually get the wifi to work - it's not been a high
> priority for me - but regardless of how well it works (or not) with
> Linux, I would never buy another Acer. 
> 
> Dom
> 
> On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 10:03 +0100, aotley at gmail.com wrote:
>> Hello list , I am thinking of getting an acer 5742z at a bargain 250 quid off ebuyer 
>> Any one got much experience with acers and Linux .....concerns will be wireless drivers I guess, 
>> Thanks in advance
>> Andy
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