Thyagarajan ?????????? wrote: > curious to know the user experience. Little bit confused after reading the > article > http://tovganesh.blogspot.com/2008/07/switching-form-ubuntu-to-windows-vista.html. > > Any ubuntu users working on this laptop , willing to share the > experience...? >
I had just read the article from the link you provided. The only 2 points he ever mentioned for the change is crap. I mean it (sorry for being un-polite). And I am beginning to suspect if he works for M$. Let me explain. About the Wifi cards. I had 7.10 installed, then 8.04 and now 9.04. Ubuntu discovers Wifi, then it asks for the key. It even detects the appropriate encryption method. I haven't even gone any deeper to configure. My system works with WEP and WPA. Just open up the network manager and reconfigure to ad-hoc. I am not sure why he had to re-compile. The hardware supports max only 1024x600 (16:9). I am not sure how he mentions that vista configured it to 1024x768. Either he is wrong or there is some serious bugs under vista. Vista never gave me a scroll able windows. That is true for Ubuntu. However in some cases I noticed that Ubuntu scrolls the screen automatically to work on the input object that were hidden. But this is not always true. Regarding the battery time, I agree. I have to add. I also had XP under the same hardware. XP was slightly better then vista. I do development using the netbook. I use GCC4.3, PHP5, python 2.5 and 2.6, mysql5, apache2 running and still my netbook boot time under is linux is 1 min. My experience: I did have a dual boot on the very same netbook (now only ubuntu). Windows Vista and Ubuntu. Vista took nearly 15 min to show up the login screen. Once logged in based on the services you start it is ready for use anywhere from another 15 min to 30 min. It simply can't boot faster. Ubuntu prior to 9.04 took nearly about 3 to 4 mins to show up the login screen and another 2 to 3 min to the desktop. Ubuntu 9.04 is a breeze with ext4. It takes about 1 min to login screen and another 30 sec to desktop. Not just this... your MS Office 2007 loads in much shorter time under wine then under vista on the same hardware. OpenOffice loads in about 20 sec under linux (I am saying this because, OOo used to take a long time to load under linux). Any program in vista take atlease 2 to 5 mins to load. Windows media player needs many codec to play DVD or Divx or even mp4. You have to go hunting for those free codec on the net. Ubuntu just asks your permission to install the needed codec and downloads and installs. (simple user experience under Ubuntu was great then vista.) I need to configure the touch screen under linux to use hand writing recognition. Just want to ask you all how many times to you really use these feature... In my case I can live with it until folks fix for my hardware. I had already passed the necessary info to the developers to enable calibration for my hardware. The build in webcam is screwed up one. I use a external only when I need. (I use webcam very rare.) Overall I find HCL system a good buy with linux for me. One thing that motivated me to by this system is that it is a tablet. I can swirl the screen and browse. All the scroll buttons and mouse emulator are on the screen panel. These work fine under linux. I can use the netbook and sit in the backyard and browse / read ebook while my little boy is playing. _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
