"Wow. The first thing I called a netbook was the Asus Eee PC from late 2007. The same era as my Acer Aspire 9300 that we're talking about."
That's exactly what I have! Don't run W10, but W XP! On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 at 14:36, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <[email protected]> wrote: > | From: Don Tai via talk <[email protected]> > > | That's sad. You could try running an external monitor. > > An external monitor doesn't (normally) bypass the video card so it > doesn't bypass my driver problem. > > | I'd give up on Linux > | and run Win. > > That doesn't work either. I mentioned earlier that installing Win 10 > fails for unknown reasons. It gets stuck in this loop: > > - something went wrong, but don't worry, just give me an internet > connection and I'll do updates. That should fix it. > > - time passes > > The biggest problem is that NVidia stopped supporting the video controller > on Windows some time ago (before Win 10). Just like on Linux. > > The hardest problems, on Windows and Linux, are from NVidia. > - not releasing new video drivers > - not releasing sufficient specs to enable the open source driver to work > - (probably) a bug in the video hardware when system has more than 2G > of RAM > > | I still have a 2002 Dell netbook running WinXP specifically for Chinese > | social media QQ. No email or secure stuff. The only browser that I can > find > | that still runs is Opera, which is also Chinese owned. The system is > | completely isolated, and I expect it to get hacked. > > Wow. The first thing I called a netbook was the Asus Eee PC from late > 2007. The same era as my Acer Aspire 9300 that we're talking about. > --- > Post to this mailing list [email protected] > Unsubscribe from this mailing list > https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk >
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