On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 12:57 AM, Krishnakant <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-09-19 at 23:52 +0530, Lynus Vaz wrote: > > > There are no laptops available with a full GUI Linux pre-installed in > > > Mumbai. Some of the laptops that are pre-loaded with command line Linux > > > are a joke. It does not guarantee that your hardware will completely > run > Very true. I remember the days when companies used to put Turbo linux. > > > > out of the box if you install a full Linux. There are always some loose > > > ends that need to be fixed manually after installation or even wait a > > > few months till you get the proper driver for that device. > Not totally true. There are many laptops which have no open ends to > fix. > Again. My personal experience with linovo thinkpads and as some member > mentioned about idea pad s10E and the one laptop mentioned by Mehul are > best examples. > Infact I say it is always better to go for Linux specially on these > machines. I remember one insidance where I had to purchase a laptop for > my friend and he kept on persisting onkeeping the thinkpad as dual boot. > It took 2 + hard hours for getting the windows OS up, installing all the > drivers properly and bla bla bla. > But Ubuntu just went painless. That friend of mine soon shifted to > Ubuntu any ways. > So some laptops really rock with gnu/linux. > So it is not "always " true that linux won't work out-of-the-box > While the problem of modules not being available for some hardware > devices is true about a few sony laptops, and I saw one toshiba range > which entirely did not support the sound card while running linux. > > > > The way to go about is to make a small list of laptops you like and > > > google for user experiences in Linux for the same. > > > > Very good suggestion. > The other alternatively which you can use at many places is to carry a > live cd and run it on the laptop. This will be specially possible if > you go to a showroom and get a chance to try your hands on the one you > liked. > Actually this is how I discovered the problem of Sony VIO and some > toshiba laptops. > > Happy hacking. > Krishnakant. > > > > > -- > http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > I apologise to *derail* the topic but just want to put an idea to make a "Petition against Hardware vendor" to make Full Linux compatible Laptop with GNU/Linux Distro. just an idea ... otherwise you can carry with current topic. -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya ( नरेन्द्र सिसोदिया ) │ Web : http://narendra.techfandu.org │ Twitter : http://tinyurl.com/dz7e4a └─────────────────────────┘ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
