Hi all, I just finished installing Lubuntu Precise Beta 1 on a Dell Inspiron 3500 with the above specs using the i386 Alternate Install.
The Guided - Entire Disk install was textbook. Took about two or three hours, I forget. The laptop doesn't have built-in Ethernet or Wireless hardware, so I have a wireless PCMCIA card in it. Turns out the boot freezes somewhere before X even starts when I have it plugged in. Once I removed it though it booted up fine. Freezes every time I plug it in too. Didn't happen when I had Arch installed though. Took maybe a minute or a minute and a half to get to an idle desktop. I didn't get the "indexing", high disk usage thing Alan did. Disk usage stopped about 10 seconds after I logged in. Application Testing: PCManFM: Like a champ :) LXTerminal: Perfectly usable, if a bit slow. Leafpad: Perfectly usable, if a bit slow. Abiword: There's a 1-2 second lag when typing. Slow but usable, if you're a patient kind of person :) Gnumeric: A little slow, but perfectly usable. Chromium: Usable, but slow. First time I opened it the whole system became completely unresponsive, but after I closed it and relaunched it I could navigate around the settings and a few tabs reasonably well. Keep in mind though that I don't have internet on this computer so I can't do a full test. -Steven
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