Linux on NP8130 or NP8150

I've ordered the NP8150 and on the surface it doesn't appear there should be any issue with installing Linux on this machine however I was wondering if anyone had any personal experience with this and could give a thumbs up if all worked as expected. I did find one post on the Ubuntu forum where someone was having issues with the Jmicron JMC250 ethernet controller in terms of making a connection, in his post he said he solved it by updating the driver but when I PMed him he indicated he was still having issues.

Anyone else can provide a positive experience as being able to run Linux is very important to me as it is my primary OS for work.

 

I wasn't able to compile the JMC250 controller, didn't really try to fix it, besides I use wifi. Ubuntu didn't detect the video card as NVidia, but installing driver worked fine. I downloaded the sources of the wifi driver (stock, non Intel), compiled, worked fine as well. Everything else was detected.

 

Thanks for the reply, what version of Ubuntu were you using?

 

Maverick Meerkat