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    Has anyone installed Ubuntu on there m11x?

    Discussion in 'Alienware M11x' started by teknic111, May 6, 2011.

  1. teknic111

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    Just wondering what works and what doesnt.
     
    teknic111, May 6, 2011
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    DeeVu That Compsci/Psych Major

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    There are already several threads on this. The graphics card will always be enabled. The wifi works. Stuff like that. I myself haven't done it because I do not see the benefit in it. For this hardware and all the driver issues.]
     
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    theparadox Notebook Guru

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    I have. Everything works fine besides the Dedicated GPU. There are ways now to turn it off as well.
     
    theparadox, May 7, 2011
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    alienwolf Notebook Deity

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    I use to be into Linux big time and even installed it on my m17x for a duel boot. But until steam works out of the box, why bother on a gaming machine. :confused: Was fun to figure out how to do it. :rolleyes:
     
    alienwolf, May 7, 2011
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    LuckRocks Notebook Geek

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    Iv'e tried it...Not really worth it can't do much. gotta boot into windows to change keyboard color well atleast for me =P
     
    LuckRocks, May 8, 2011
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    I've tried it using the Live CD. Works well as a secondary operating system for a gaming PC like this. I REALLY like that WiFi works out-of-the-box on it, first PC I've installed Ubuntu on that did, all the others I had to install the drivers myself, which is not fun when you have to compile them yourself from the windows drivers...argh....lol
     
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    adramalech, May 8, 2011
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    I'm still not sure why they don't port steam to linux. They made a OSX version which is unix based; im sure the code wouldn't require all that many changes to be honest. The only reason I use windows is to game otherwise id drop it in a heartbeat.

    Surprising. Ive done at least 15 linux installs on different boxes and at least 7 of those with wifi cards and the drivers always worked out of the box. Linux is great at being useable right out of the box.
     
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    The reason for most of the support is it is prepackaged with a lot of things. Most of it isn't needed but they throw into the live-dvd/cd image a lot of driver support.

    I run Gentoo so I don't have that kind of support. Most of mine out of the box comes from compiling a custom kernel with driver support.

    Has anybody tried gentoo on an m11x?
     
    adramalech, May 8, 2011
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    BrokenKeyboard Notebook Consultant

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    Download it from this link. When it's done installing, when you boot up your computer you can choose between Windows 7 and Ubuntu to boot.

    Download | Ubuntu
     
    BrokenKeyboard, May 8, 2011
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    thegh0sts Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    which GPU does it run off while in ubuntu? nvidia or intel?
     
    thegh0sts, May 8, 2011
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