Hooray for easy installation!

[frodolover]

So with assistance from my nearest friendly linux geek (thank you Mr uniqueid) I can now has ubuntu on my EeePC... much more friendly and customisable than the Xandros OS that came pre-installed. Having followed the advice on the ubuntu documentation wiki ( here, the biggest hurdle was the wireless and it's now working fine, so the only major issue now is

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[frodolover]

I have the reinstallation disks for Xandros as well as a backup of what "flea' (my Eee) was before the installation of Ubuntu.

But to be honest it was more likely for things to go boom in a way I couldn't fix while I had Xandros. At least with Ubuntu it's more likely that Mr David can help me out...

If you go with the Windows version you'll have a lot less memory to work with so will really want to look into additional memory (good size card in the SD slot) - it all depends which Eee you'd be looking at, but with the 900 (the one I have) the difference between the Windows and Linux version is 8GB.

[frodolover]

Well I've had Ubuntu on my desktop computer for at least a year and a half now and I've really appreciated the ease with which I can do things. Not having the BSOD or Rainbow Scrolling Wheel of Doom (the mac equivalent) is a nice relief although there is the unsolved mystery of firefox freezing.

Swapping to ubuntu on a computer I use more often however will be the real test. I think the biggest issue I face work wise is compatibility swapping between open office and microsoft office, but the relative simplicity of ubuntu on a travel computer will make computing when I travel so much easier.

[nessbrain]

Regarding the firefox freezing issue, we have it too and it seems to be flash related. If we try to open websites with handwritten flash code sometimes it fails and this is possibly due to the flash code being non-open source and no workarounds being able to be written for non-windows. I hope that makes sense, I'm rather tired :-)