I'm about to quit Linux

[phidias81]

On the Linux Mint Community site you will find a hardware review database for that. For laptops you can check a list of vendors that sell laptops preloaded with Linux: http://linuxpreloaded.com/.

Thanks, good tip for the future.

[phidias81]

And thanks to all for the reply. About dual booting I was rather thinking to drastically pass to Linux since I thought it was less problematic. Then I thought to install Windows on a virtual machine, but if I don't have a working and satisfing Linux distro, it makes no sense. ANd yes maybe trying new distros could solve some or all of my problems, but I was expecting at least basic things to work. If even brightness, suspend, etc. start to give problems, it's quite frustating. And each time starting with a new distro it means to spend days trying, because I can't say in half an hour tested from the USB stick. ALso mint mate was working very good at the beginning.

[dobbelyou]

Yes the problem, is that in example if Brightness is not working, then there is no way to assign it through hotkeys
I had to format mainly trying to install graphic driver in different ways that were not working
I tried only mint (cinnamon and mate), in the past Ubuntu. Being Ubuntu and Mate coming from the same structure I guess it could give me the same problems?

not sure,
graphics drivers are installes easily, when u have nvidia
ati may couse problems when wrongly installed:

fedora core: http://www.fedorafaq.org/#radeon
fedora core: http://www.fedorafaq.org/#nvidia

ubuntu: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI
ubuntu: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Binar ... wto/Nvidia

Opensuse: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:NVIDIA_drivers
Opensuse: http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:ATI_drivers

I assume you are dealing with the same problems you pointed upon started this topic, however, Maybe fedora core ore Opensuse is more suitable for you
i recommend KDE desktop for all distroś

[wannabegeek]

I use Thinkpads (T61 currently) which are great Linux laptops. Everything works as it should, or a quick-fix is easy to find.

I use a Thinkpad T400 precisely because it runs Debian systems with a minimum of effort...since this is your first time, you probably didn't
know all the tricks of how to pick your computer...that must really suck....

I use W 7 for my media server with my first generation flat screen TV simply because it works with a lot less energy than Linux...and my wife is more likely to use it.
So, if you're switching to Linux to make your life easier, that was a mistake....if you switched because you are an IT professional or want to evolve into a
power user over time, them you made the right choice. I studied physics and wanted to become a "Linux Guy" that's why I changed. I am so grateful that I did
because it's opened up doors for me. I love developing and working in Linux.

I highly suggest that you do not DUAL BOOT....get a second hard drive and install Windows on that...then switch boot devices from you BIOS.

Best wishes....

PS Have you tried the ubuntuforums.org ...? there's a lot bigger community there...

[jbb]

This thread makes me sad..
I have an Acer TimelineX 1830t (just the 11inch version of what the OP is running), and it works flawlessly with Mint on it.

The only noticeable difference between my system is the graphics card (mine runs Intel HD), but apart from that, I would have assumed everything else would have worked the same!

[Acid_1]

heh, methinks you would be interested in reading this.

Linux is not Windows


Very explanatory and puts things in a different perspective for new Linux users.

[Brahim]

You can make Linux Mint look like Windows too http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/1173

[Spinnekop]

Methinks he has gone..... RIP

[xenopeek]

I was wondering how long you all would keep talking to the void

Last visited:
Mon Mar 4 2013

[DrHu]

I quit using *bsd system (the original models, not the prepackaged systems), but have never had to quit Linux OS: various versions including older Suse and even an original (diskette: Yggdrasil) and some others about the same time..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil ... d_releases

[recalcitrant]

I already had to format and reinstall 5 times in 3 weeks

I actually loved this as a beginner.

The "famous" Linux community gave me very little help, always ignoring all of my topics apart from a couple of generous moderators (that told me to throw in the garbage my graphic card)

at least they didnt tell you to google it as if it wouldnt bring you back to the forums with unresolved isses.

[Jessey Lawson]

It sounds like another exWindows users who is a complainer. I got my Toshiba laptop working. I can't install any disro older then Linux Mint 14 though,

[samriggs]

I returned a Toshiba because of too many issues a few years back, some have no issues some others do, the one I had was toast, a total dud even with windoze on it.
Might of been a lemon though, so I thought at the time, maybe it was one of many by what I've been seeing lately.
Shrugs linux ain't for everyone, even if it's a better OS, can't please everyone.
Everyone I converted over to linux refuses to ever go back to windoze again, so far I'm batting pretty good on the converting stats
ah ya all but one, that's cause I didn't have time to show all they could do it and give them basic training, sort of installed and left them to their own devices, so that one failure at conversion was my fault I guess