Choosing an OS for the Asus eeePC netbook. My personal experience
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Today, I finally got around to share some of my experiences using my netbook Asus eeePC.
My first computer, overworked in 1998, was very good for its time. It had 32 megabytes of RAM, a Celeron 500 MHz processor, 8 GB HDD and a video card with either 8 or 16 megabytes of memory.
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This wonderful machine has seen Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000 and Windows XP, finally. Under Windows XP, of course, the speed was terrible and I delivered up to 64 MB of RAM, after which it was possible to work quite normally. I don’t remember what year I broke up with this computer, but a year ago I had to go on a business trip and take a laptop with me. Then it became necessary to purchase a computer for my wife, she needed to work with texts. It was a pity to buy money for the purchase of a second laptop or computer, so we then bought the Asus eeePC of the earliest model, which cost about $ 200. His characteristics were better than my first computer: Celeron 900 MHz, 512 Mb RAM, 4 Gb disk, which is not even a hard drive, but it looks like a flash.
So, for 200 bucks in 2008, I turned out to be a more powerful unit than a 1998 computer. It weighed 900 grams, was preinstalled with Windows XP.
I immediately upgraded it, adding RAM up to 1 GB.
And here are the impressions of Windows XP on this netbook.
Every time I turned it on, a yellow baloon appeared on the screen with a message stating that my screen resolution was too small.
Internet Explorer was not suitable either for borscht or the Red Army, because braked terribly. Chrome and Opera worked, and used them. Constantly some hangs of the whole netbook for a few minutes, during which he did not react to anything except the Power button. After a week, strange messages started to appear at the start about the lack of some kind of drivers, although there was always enough, only I had the admin account.
Soon the netbook began to work quite unstably, I was only enough to put on it a Ubuntu Netbook Remix, to be disappointed and abandoned. Ubuntu Netbook Remix was no good at all nowhere. I worked even more unstable “out of the box” the only thing that was sharpened by a netbook, so this is its strange graphical shell, which I personally was extremely uncomfortable and unpleasant.
Now the second part. After listening to evangelists from Microsoft about how Windows 7 is good on netbooks, I specifically purchased a 4 GB USB flash drive, deflated Windows 7 from the official site and tried to install it on my netbook. After half an hour of shaking, Windows 7 told me that it needed 5.6, it seems, gigabytes, which means it won't be for my four.
But, once I started, I decided to bring the matter to an acceptable result and put Ubuntu 9.10 on this netbook. I started quickly, I determined everything, I want to go online, this is net beech!
And I have the Internet through VPN, otherwise nothing. And here the brilliance and poverty of open source began: in order to get on the Internet, I had to set up a VPN, and in order to set up a VPN, I had to (attention!) Download a certain network-manager-pptp from the Internet. Well, okay, I have the Internet on another machine, I googled, downloaded - I can not deliver, because not satisfied dependencies.
It ended with the fact that I went to the dining room with free Wi-FI, launched the Ubuntu Software Center, entered the VPN in the search bar and put the package I needed. The solution, of course, is not that very difficult, but it’s easy to imagine how many people, precisely because of the lack of a single package, will choose Windows XP, where there are no problems with configuring VPN.
On the other hand, after the appearance of the Internet, I uploaded updates, turned on XGL effects (on a netbook!) And now this ancient netbook doesn’t slow down (as it slowed down on Windows XP), has Windows enabled Aero-like effects (which wouldn’t be on Windows 7). In general, finally got a gadget that you can use and enjoy even the housewife. Although the keyboard is too small for typing, but having a small Linux server at hand is always nice.
Today, I finally got around to share some of my experiences using my netbook Asus eeePC.
My first computer, overworked in 1998, was very good for its time. It had 32 megabytes of RAM, a Celeron 500 MHz processor, 8 GB HDD and a video card with either 8 or 16 megabytes of memory.
')
This wonderful machine has seen Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000 and Windows XP, finally. Under Windows XP, of course, the speed was terrible and I delivered up to 64 MB of RAM, after which it was possible to work quite normally. I don’t remember what year I broke up with this computer, but a year ago I had to go on a business trip and take a laptop with me. Then it became necessary to purchase a computer for my wife, she needed to work with texts. It was a pity to buy money for the purchase of a second laptop or computer, so we then bought the Asus eeePC of the earliest model, which cost about $ 200. His characteristics were better than my first computer: Celeron 900 MHz, 512 Mb RAM, 4 Gb disk, which is not even a hard drive, but it looks like a flash.
So, for 200 bucks in 2008, I turned out to be a more powerful unit than a 1998 computer. It weighed 900 grams, was preinstalled with Windows XP.
I immediately upgraded it, adding RAM up to 1 GB.
And here are the impressions of Windows XP on this netbook.
Every time I turned it on, a yellow baloon appeared on the screen with a message stating that my screen resolution was too small.
Internet Explorer was not suitable either for borscht or the Red Army, because braked terribly. Chrome and Opera worked, and used them. Constantly some hangs of the whole netbook for a few minutes, during which he did not react to anything except the Power button. After a week, strange messages started to appear at the start about the lack of some kind of drivers, although there was always enough, only I had the admin account.
Soon the netbook began to work quite unstably, I was only enough to put on it a Ubuntu Netbook Remix, to be disappointed and abandoned. Ubuntu Netbook Remix was no good at all nowhere. I worked even more unstable “out of the box” the only thing that was sharpened by a netbook, so this is its strange graphical shell, which I personally was extremely uncomfortable and unpleasant.
Now the second part. After listening to evangelists from Microsoft about how Windows 7 is good on netbooks, I specifically purchased a 4 GB USB flash drive, deflated Windows 7 from the official site and tried to install it on my netbook. After half an hour of shaking, Windows 7 told me that it needed 5.6, it seems, gigabytes, which means it won't be for my four.
But, once I started, I decided to bring the matter to an acceptable result and put Ubuntu 9.10 on this netbook. I started quickly, I determined everything, I want to go online, this is net beech!
And I have the Internet through VPN, otherwise nothing. And here the brilliance and poverty of open source began: in order to get on the Internet, I had to set up a VPN, and in order to set up a VPN, I had to (attention!) Download a certain network-manager-pptp from the Internet. Well, okay, I have the Internet on another machine, I googled, downloaded - I can not deliver, because not satisfied dependencies.
It ended with the fact that I went to the dining room with free Wi-FI, launched the Ubuntu Software Center, entered the VPN in the search bar and put the package I needed. The solution, of course, is not that very difficult, but it’s easy to imagine how many people, precisely because of the lack of a single package, will choose Windows XP, where there are no problems with configuring VPN.
On the other hand, after the appearance of the Internet, I uploaded updates, turned on XGL effects (on a netbook!) And now this ancient netbook doesn’t slow down (as it slowed down on Windows XP), has Windows enabled Aero-like effects (which wouldn’t be on Windows 7). In general, finally got a gadget that you can use and enjoy even the housewife. Although the keyboard is too small for typing, but having a small Linux server at hand is always nice.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/78771/
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