[Discuss] Re: linux friendly laptops

[Corey Burger]

On 5/5/06, Borden Rhodes <hislordship at canada.com> wrote:
> As an owner of an Acer laptop, I would recommend staying
> away from them at all costs.  Although I have been able to
> get Dapper to work on my Acer 4001 box, it's taken a lot of
> command-line work and even still half of the stuff on the
> system doesn't work like it did in Windows (OpenGL, for
> example).  When I contacted them to get specs so I could
> follow the How-tos, they were very unhelpful and made a
> point of saying that they never intend to provide any Linux
> support.
>
> Live and learn!

As a note, remember to file bugs with $YOUR_FAVOURITE_DISTRO to get
them to fix any bugs you find with your laptop. Often a fix for one
laptop may fix an entire manufacturers range.

Corey