Re: Debian "testing" is looking really great on my new "Skylake" PC

2016-01-22 Thread Himanshu Shekhar
On Jan 21, 2016 9:45 PM, "Patrick Bartek" wrote: > > Thanks. Based on your input (and others), I'm eliminated Acer from my > list. I, too, have experience with Thinkpads and Asus notebooks, and > have had few problems installing Linux on them. Since Dell has their >

Re: Debian "testing" is looking really great on my new "Skylake" PC

2016-01-21 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 20 Jan 2016, Jarle Aase wrote: > > > Den 01/20/16 18:56, skrev Patrick Bartek: > > What if anything special like disabling Secureboot did you do to > > facilitate this painless install? > Nothing really. I specified "Other OS" and enabled virtualization - > that's all that I changed in

Re: Debian "testing" is looking really great on my new "Skylake" PC

2016-01-21 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Thu, 21 Jan 2016 00:30:03 +0100 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 20 January 2016 22:25:55 Charles Kroeger wrote: > > On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 08:50:02 +0100 > > > > Jarle Aase wrote: > > > I just wanted to share > > > > Where's Stan Hooper when you need him? I

Re: Debian "testing" is looking really great on my new "Skylake" PC

2016-01-20 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Wed, 20 Jan 2016, Jarle Aase wrote: > I built myself a new PC with an Intel i7-6700K ("Skylake" > architecture) > - and I was prepared for lots of grief and trouble. However, > installing Debian "testing" yesterday, from the latest Amd64 > snapshot, was absolutely painless. > > I'm using kde

Re: Debian "testing" is looking really great on my new "Skylake" PC

2016-01-20 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 20 January 2016 22:25:55 Charles Kroeger wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 08:50:02 +0100 > > Jarle Aase wrote: > > I just wanted to share > > Where's Stan Hooper when you need him? I miss your hardware critiques Stan > better weigh in here. Maybe we've lost him? I do

Re: Debian "testing" is looking really great on my new "Skylake" PC

2016-01-20 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2016-01-20 at 09:36 +0200, Jarle Aase wrote: > I built myself a new PC with an Intel i7-6700K ("Skylake" > architecture)  > - and I was prepared for lots of grief and trouble. However, > installing  > Debian "testing" yesterday, from the latest Amd64 snapshot, was  > absolutely painless.

Re: Debian "testing" is looking really great on my new "Skylake" PC

2016-01-20 Thread Charles Kroeger
On Wed, 20 Jan 2016 08:50:02 +0100 Jarle Aase wrote: > I just wanted to share Where's Stan Hooper when you need him? I miss your hardware critiques Stan better weigh in here. -- CK

Re: Debian "testing" is looking really great on my new "Skylake" PC

2016-01-20 Thread Jarle Aase
Den 01/20/16 18:56, skrev Patrick Bartek: What if anything special like disabling Secureboot did you do to facilitate this painless install? Nothing really. I specified "Other OS" and enabled virtualization - that's all that I changed in the BIOS setup. I'm buying a new notebook as a

Debian "testing" is looking really great on my new "Skylake" PC

2016-01-19 Thread Jarle Aase
I built myself a new PC with an Intel i7-6700K ("Skylake" architecture) - and I was prepared for lots of grief and trouble. However, installing Debian "testing" yesterday, from the latest Amd64 snapshot, was absolutely painless. I'm using kde as desktop, and it looks really great. I installed