- The Kubuntu installer hung half way through. Pressed disk, brand new. On repeated attempts too.
- It will not boot some CD's. It just goes right by them like theyre not even in the drive.
- The Acer eRecovery partition gets in the way. If you remove it, it makes it impossible to get "that other OS" back without the disks
- I cannot make my wireless work (ipw2200), despite repeated attempts and help from others
- acpi doesn't work as expected (SuSE). no battery meter.
Just my $0.02...
On 8/27/06, Shawn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Mitchell, a quick description of WHY you don't recommend a product would
go a long ways to promoting good discussion. As is, you are basically
stating an opinion - and one that is contrary to the findings of others
on the list. How long ago did you encounter your problems? What
distro(s)? What was your knowledge level at the time? etc....
My laptop, which just so happens to be a recent Acer, works "out of the
box" with Kubuntu. It will work "out of the box" with most mainstream
distros. If you install something like Gentoo, then yes you can expect
to have problems - but that is EXPECTED, only cuz YOU have to configure
the system to your likes/needs.
The only Acer's I know of that *might* have a problem are the ones on
the bleeding edge (technology wise) - but that goes for ANY brand. And
Acer is not known for this approach too often.
My Thoughts.
Shawn
Mitchell Brown wrote:
> I don't recommend Acer's for running Linux, they're pretty tricky to do.
> Lots of things don't work.
> If you want more details, email me offlist.
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