[aklug] Re: Linux on a laptop

From: Tim Johnson <tim@akwebsoft.com>
Date: Mon Nov 11 2013 - 08:01:21 AKST

* Greg Schmitz <greg@amipa.org> [131111 07:11]:
>
> Anybody running Linux on a laptop?
>
> I'd like to stop using an Apple machine running Apple OS X when I travel
> and use a laptop running Linux. I will happily throw my Apple machine
> away. Any suggestions on which laptop might be best suited to a Linux
> install - based on personal experience?

  I have used Linux on laptops for many years. Currently I have two
  older netbooks both running xubuntu 12.04. I have never had any
  problems with resolution. I use the 'stock' xubuntu desktop on
  both - that is xfce. It is a good compromise between usability and
  modest consumption of resources.

  BTW: My main workstation has been for the last two years a 2011
  mac mini with 8 gigs of RAM. I have virtualbox installed, but have
  not used it thus far. I have very *nix-like environment. Bash,
  mutt, mysql, fetchmail, procmail, postfix, vim, macVim (gui
  version of vim for mac) mc and many other tools installed with
  macports. My command terminal is iTerm2 which is like
  gnome-terminal, et al. And I've got Open Office.

  If one chooses to run console applications from the X11 terminal,
  the response is much faster than under iTerm2 - it's almost like
  having a twice faster machine - but the resolution is pretty
  crappy.

  We have two linux base desktops here - my wife uses a Compaq with
  Ubuntu 11.04 and I've got another older - but no less functional
  Gateway running ubuntu 12.04.

  Frankly, if I get another machine soon, it would be the newer mac
  mini which supports 16 GB Ram. I would then probably be using
  virtualbox with some kind of linux.

  Mac is wonderfully engineered. Incredibly solid performance, but a
  resource hog. And IMHO, apple is as much a self-serving monolith
  as Windows, MsNBC, News Corps and the Hudson Bay Trading company.
  But no one is perfect ...
  

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Tim 
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