On 3/16/2013 7:07 AM, Jack Chastain wrote:
OH no. It's me again
Just received my new laptop. Wow. I didn't think it would be possible
to loathe W8 more, but I discounted having to actually use it.
It is pretty loathsome.
I recently received a new laptop and after struggling to get my favority
Linux Distro working well on it, finally had to give up and went back to
Windows 8.
My preference is to "dual boot" the old fashioned way, I leave the
windows hard drive alone and just swap in a new hard drive and install
Linux on it. That way I can swap back and forth and don't need to
fight with dual booting or figuring out which partitions I can resize
and which are recovery.
It also has the added benefit of discouraging me from booting up windows
"because the kids can run their games" because swapping the hard drive
is just slightly more work than I want to do for them when Linux works.
Secondly, I had no end of heck dealing with UEFI. I could install Linux
Mint[a Ubuntu derivative] just fine but when it came time to reboot, it
kept going to windows. In the end, I disabled UEFI since I was doing a
separate hard drive anyway and just switch it back on when I go to windows.
I have a low end, slow laptop and Linux Mint was nice and zippy, did
everything at the speed I wanted.....except the silly Realtek wireless
card would not work properly. It constantly dropped my connection,
would not connect, would not connect to open wifi networks, etc.
It got to the point that I finally gave up and am unhappily using
Windows 8 and counting the days until I can upgrade to a new
computer....this time I will double check the network card compatibility
before getting it and then I will finally be back on Mint and happy.
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