Studio 17-Ubuntu

I am quite happy and, honestly, quite surprised to say that ubuntu linux works nearly flawlessly upon initial installation. Keyboard lights, sound buttons, bluetooth, touchpad scrollers, etc. all worked immediately, and all it took was about a minute of ethernet connection to install restricted ATI and Wlan drivers and it seems perfect! Huzzah!!

 

Yep. Linux distros have come a long long way. Most make everything work out of the box. Some need some configuring for certain things like broadcom wireless cards.

 

Takes 2 seconds.

I'm a pro at it by now...lol

 

=) good to hear bro.

 

It took me hours of going through tutorials and trial and error before I finally got bluetooth dialup networking to work, now it takes all of 3 minutes now that I know how to.
I love linux, and I'm glad it's very user friendly (NOT what I heard several years ago about linux, and what scared me away from it for so long).

 

It's just different, some have there preferences.
Personally, I use what I think is best for me at the moment.
Right now I'm in Vista, just because I do like it, however bloated.

 

I really like Vista, its just very smooth and fast. The superfetch feature is great.

Going to try out preload, a superfetch alternative to linux and according to the benchmarks should see noticeable improvements.

 

Why exactly do Broadcom cards require manual configuration? If it's so easy, why can't it be automated?

There's a similar problem with my NVIDIA graphics card, where after installing the driver using Kubuntu's restricted driver installer, the DPI is too high. Adding

Code:

Option "UseEdidDpi" "FALSE"

to /etc/X11/xorg.conf fixes this problem. Why can't that be automated in the driver installer?

When I got my laptop, Vista took over 5 minutes to boot up, so I wiped it from the hard drive as soon as I'd burned the recovery DVDs
Not like I expected any better from it anyway

 

I usually end of hard modding files, so....
It cant be automate because it's illegal, against Broadcom's license.
Vista got a license, but MS paid big money for it.

 

Yeah, Vista took 4 minutes (I counted) for it all to have started up and loaded before i could actually do anything when i first got it. I formatted everything and did vista clean and ubuntu on another partition. Vista's boot time went down from 63 sec to about 30 sec. Ubuntu's boot screen only lasts about 15-20 sec tops, and I had programs running in about 1 minute.

 

I trust Linux more to boot when I want it to. Look at the hassle of doing a clean install of Vista compared to linux (assuming you have a separate /home)

 

When I first got my 1735 I tried the Ubuntu live cd and it wouldn't run. Sighed and said "I hope someone smarter than me figures it out".

I was poking around in the bios last night and found settings AHCI and Fast Cache Module that seemed to relate to the hard drive. DON'T change these settings! It warns you about rendering your drive unbootable and it means it!
I was able to change it back and it booted but it was touch and go.

Anyway, after changing these settings I was able to boot Ubuntu. I changed AHCI to ATA and the Fast Cache Module to disabled. Did anyone else have to change these settings? Should Ubuntu be able to work with these enabled? What kind of performance hit will there be with these changed?

I've ordered a 2nd hdd to clone my first. I got Vista working about as good as can be expected and don't want to loose it. I want to dual boot till I get more comfortable Ubuntu.

Thanks,
davidk