Correction, no I don't have an Asus Eee PC running.It is broken, but a Dell inspiron 1011, Intel Atom 1.6Ghz
On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 at 14:50, Don Tai <[email protected]> wrote: > "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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