Ubuntu Netbook Remix<\/a>. It is quite possibly the sweetest little UI for a computer I’ve ever seen – like something out of the future. Anyway, it’s really, really nice.<\/p>\nWhat’s really amazing to me is how everything just works<\/em>. I’ve used Linux before (back in the day – get off my lawn you young kids, etc.), but it always had a sort of… unfinished<\/em> look to it. It never quite worked as well as Windows, especially with built-in stuff like, say, those crazy blue “function” (or “fn”) keys on laptops – you know, the ones that let you adjust the volume or the screen brightness.<\/p>\nWell, I can tell you right now<\/strong> that Linux has come a long way<\/strong> since then.<\/p>\nI didn’t have to do anything special to get Ubuntu up and running on this little netbook – and everything just works<\/strong>. The webcam works great, the sound is great, the volume and brightness controls work great, the wireless works out-of-the-box, the battery meeter works perfectly – even the little SD memory card reader on the side, which supposedly has some trouble on some models of the Acer Aspire, works fine – I put in my memory card and it read it right away. It even knew it was from a camera and offered to download pictures from it for me!<\/p>\nIn short, these days, Linux really is a viable alternative to Windows<\/strong>, no questions asked.<\/p>\nAnyway – moving along – the little netbook is all set up today, happily purring along in either Linux or Windows. I kept Windows “just in case” I need it for something Windows-specific. After all, it’s got a fairly big hard drive, and I don’t plan on keeping huge amounts of files on the drive itself, so it just makes sense to split the drive and dual-boot. If I have any files, I’ll probably keep them on a USB drive or maybe a SD card I’ll just keep in it all the time (SD cards are cheap enough to make this a viable option).<\/p>\n
So in the end, I’m quite happy with this netbook. The keyboard is small, but easy enough for me to type on comfortably (the right-hand shift key is full-sized and in the right spot – a major annoyance for me that I found on some other netbooks), and the touchpad, although small and a bit … touchy? … is actually easy enough to use once you get used to it.<\/p>\n
So if you’re looking for a netbook, you could do far, far worse than to pick one of these Acer Aspire One’s up – and the price certainly is right!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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