Hello everyone, Thanks for all your replies. I still couldn't find a Dell laptop that sticks to my needs and budgets. I need to do some memory profiling running VMs and thus* processing speed and RAM size is crucial for my work*. (i7, 8GB). I was looking for other options than Dell and found the *following model on ASUS *interesting.
http://shopping.indiatimes.com/computers/notebook/asus-k55vm-sx086d-laptop-i7-8gb-1tb-15-6-inch-mocha-brown-/11389/p_B1433811 But I am not sure *how good is ASUS compared to Dell*. Are there someone who had used it ? Is it good for project works related to memory analysis and systems? Also, are there *any other good models* that you would suggest for me with Ubuntu as my default OS. On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 5:05 AM, pavithran <[email protected]> wrote: > On 30 June 2014 11:54, Sundaram KR <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>I want to purchase a Dell laptop... I am a regular Ubuntu user. > > > > Recently Dell went private, and Microsoft is a major investor. I tried > installing Linux on Dell Optiplex series and gave up after tearing my hair > out. It is painful. > > Dell has discontinued Linux desktop offerings, so if you want a Linux > desktop go to some other company brand or best assemble with Intel boards > from the market. They are 25% cheaper and guaranteed to run Linux (all > flavours) smoothly. > > I recently installed Linux Mint Debian Edition LMDE on my friends > machine which was running Windows 8 . The windows which came by > default came with lot of bloatware added to that it had caught cold ( > joking ) . So I convinced my friend with a Live USB to use LMDE. > > First thing I noticed was I was unable to boot from USB . I had to > disable UEFI boot and boot via legacy mode by hanging the bios > setttings. Oh yeah the secure boot was not turned on by dell , so I > left it alone. Next I was unable to access the Windows partitions. My > friend needed the data. Though there are better ways to do things, I > just booted to windows and copied all the useful files to external > hard disk. > > To install I found that the hard disk was formatted in GPT > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GUID_Partition_Table > I just used "gdisk" https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/gdisk which is > available in the repo's to just convert the whole thing into MBR. > There were two hard disks one 500 GB and one 32 GB SSD. I gave SSD for > / and swap while the /home was for 500 GB hard disk. > Note : conversion leads to complete loss of data. > > Anyways my friend hardly cared about windows so its gone and gives me > a good feeling to install single boot :) > > @sreepriya: Just buy some windows laptop and apply for a microsoft > refund as you have not accepted the EULA license, though its not as > simple as said , have a look at what Praveen has done > http://www.j4v4m4n.in/2014/06/24/microsoft-tax-refund/ > > ^ Hope the others in LUG and some legal advisor’s help for getting the > refund. > > Regards, > Pavithran > http://look-pavi.blogspot.com > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc > ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: > http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines > -- Regards, (Lokah Samasthah Sukhino Bhavanthu) Sreepriya C University of Trento, Italy priyachalakkal.wordpress.com <http://www.priyachalakkal.wordpress.com> _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
