So, I am in Ubuntu, but I'm looking into another distro. I love DSL, it's fast even on a flash drive and I thought about using it full time on the HDD. Anyone do this?
Any other distros that are fast and easy to "get up and...
Well, I'm sure Ubuntu will suit you fine! Everything is free, no buying word processors or anything like that. All it takes is an apt-get and *poof* you have your program. Not sure if you have read it or not but: www.ubuntuguide.org will...
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Originally Posted by Entropius
If you're really concerned about leaving a hard drive spinning all night, Linux can help you.
I forget exactly how to do it (hdparm -something), but you can tell a Linux machine...
Bah, I've used Aiglx before. It was fun and cool looking but it got boring. I didn't like having to disable a certain plugin thing every time I wanted to watch a movie. The effects and stuff were sweet, even on integrated graphics.
instead of typing out a long ass reply to say that it really doesn't matter, i will just say; it's easy to replace (i've done it) and it's a freaking computer part, enjoy it by downloading your 1.5Gb worth of pr0n and anime each day.
Well, I've personally never gotten one. My Thinkpad is rougly a year old. Did I get a better warranty? Nope. Did anything bad happen within that year? Nope, except I broke the scroller button and purchased a new keyboard, however, it was...
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Originally Posted by abf
not using windows usually helps controlling the crashing......then again maybe its just me
QFT. The only time I have to hard reboot the computer is when the display doesn't...
QFT for all posts posted in this thread. Great help guys!
Airflow + placement of hard drive varies by laptop. For example, in a HP notebook I've dealt with, the hard drive was placed in the center front, right beneath the touchpad....
