Hello guys!
My laptop is getting old. And I'm sick of it. I bought it from a supermarket.
It was a great deal. A 17" screen for about 400€. Everything is good as
long as I stick with Windows. On Linux it does not work. Trisquel doesn't
even end the boot process. Fedora 18 or newer runs well, but more exotic
distros need some tweaking to reach GUI login. Also suspend and hybernate
make it unusable.
ThinkPenguin looks very well. But it's in States.
I received today in my mailbox a notification from FSF about Gluglug X60.
Sounds even better, but it's UK.
And I am stuck in France. I tried to ask a few French forums about finding a
laptop that works flawless with Free Software that I can get in France with a
local warranty. All I got was wise cracks about my French, which I admit it's
bad.
I will be frank, I most probably go for another distro. But I see Trisquel as
the best test for a piece of free hardware. Sure, I want to pay less money
and have more battery life.
Can you help me? Any experience with French dealers? I don't care about
french keyboards, I blind type. I don't care much about big screen as I have
experienced that can burn a lot of battery.
