Comments | kovucougar: Got me a small PC

kovucougar

Got me a small PC

Jun 18, 2010 08:05

I picked up a (slightly older) eeePC the other day. AeeePC 1005HAB.

Came with XP Home. Trying to decide if I should wipe an install eeeBuntu on it, or similar.

Anyone with experience/thoughts?

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black_dragon_7 June 19 2010, 07:42:45 UTC

It depends on what your doing with it and how comfortable you are with eeeBunto. I have an pre/atom EEE pc, (the one i bring to con) and it works just fine for web browsing and playing media. Anything beyond that or getting set-up with complex wifi networks (at my school here, they can't get the settings on linux to jive with their security) tends to be a pain, or figuring out what aptget to update software.

So if your wanting to use it a little past media and web surfing, i'd keep windows on for sake of simplicity. But if you know your way around eeebunto, then i might go that way.

kovucougar June 21 2010, 16:00:51 UTC

I'm not entirely sold on either yet... XP is certainly starting to feel 'old' to me, but changing over could have its own challenges (the 802.11n card may be problematic... Ther's no Linux driver for my networked printer...)

I have to wonder though if I couldn't get a significant battery life boost. :)