My sister bought new laptop - Dell Linux Inspiron M5030
Preinstalled Linux was Ubuntu 9.x
It worked fine, but since it was so old, first thought: "Let's upgrade" (Current version is 11.04)
Before upgrading I created backup DVD that was supposed to reset laptop to factory defaults.
After 3 hours of upgrade, it rebooted, but gnome was so laggy, that I decided to install fresh Ubuntu 11.04.
Nothing changed.
Then I downloaded OpenSuse and installed that, the result was about the same... quite unusable system. (I think my Pentium 3 @450Mhz performed better).
Then I tried to install ubuntu 10.x... guess what.... failed
After this I tried to installd Ubuntu 9.x that came with laptop.
Epic fail -- install didn't even started, something crashed...
After this I used backup dvd and tried to recover.... It hanged....
At this time it was about 3-4 am.
Being totally upset about "How great Linux is" I decided to try and see if I could Install FreeBSD on laptop.
I used script that I made for other laptop to create FreeBSD zfs system. everything worked fine.
Just installed KDE4 form ports. Every dam thing is working...
So where all the Linux fan-boys come from?
Till now I could never imagine that I will not be able to install operating system on Laptop, that was pre-installed in first place.
P.S. Sorry if I made many mistakes in this post.. it's 6:26 am, and I haven't been sleeping yet
EDIT:
No flame-war, just telling like it is
Preinstalled Linux was Ubuntu 9.x
It worked fine, but since it was so old, first thought: "Let's upgrade" (Current version is 11.04)
Before upgrading I created backup DVD that was supposed to reset laptop to factory defaults.
After 3 hours of upgrade, it rebooted, but gnome was so laggy, that I decided to install fresh Ubuntu 11.04.
Nothing changed.
Then I downloaded OpenSuse and installed that, the result was about the same... quite unusable system. (I think my Pentium 3 @450Mhz performed better).
Then I tried to install ubuntu 10.x... guess what.... failed
After this I tried to installd Ubuntu 9.x that came with laptop.
Epic fail -- install didn't even started, something crashed...
After this I used backup dvd and tried to recover.... It hanged....
At this time it was about 3-4 am.
Being totally upset about "How great Linux is" I decided to try and see if I could Install FreeBSD on laptop.
I used script that I made for other laptop to create FreeBSD zfs system. everything worked fine.
Just installed KDE4 form ports. Every dam thing is working...
So where all the Linux fan-boys come from?
Till now I could never imagine that I will not be able to install operating system on Laptop, that was pre-installed in first place.
P.S. Sorry if I made many mistakes in this post.. it's 6:26 am, and I haven't been sleeping yet
EDIT:
No flame-war, just telling like it is