So I recently decided to make my Lenovo T60 a dual-boot laptop. I had been wanting to try Ubuntu on my laptop so I popped in my old Windows2k CD and created two partitions. I planned on putting Windows on one and Ubuntu on the other.
Windows2k took about 1/2 hour to install which was expected, however, it didn't pick up any of the hardware. The VGA was defaulted to 640x480 16 colors and the Ethernet card was not recognized, nor was the wireless network. Since I couldn't even plug into a network and get to the internet the install was basically useless.
Fortunately Ubuntu had no such problems. I burned the ISO image onto a CD, popped it into the laptop and chose to use the entire hard drive for Ubuntu. Twenty minutes later my Gnome desktop came up in the right resolution and even correctly picked up the wireless adapter. I can read Office type files using built-in Open Office and after a quick Wine install I can even play poker on PDC, Poker Stars and Full-Tilt.
So it seems I am one step closer to becoming a Windowless office. My Lenovo screams. Windows took nearly 2 minutes to boot and almost as long to shut down. Ubuntu takes about 20 seconds to boot and even less to shut down. I also downloaded Chromium (the open source version of Chrome) and it is about 50% faster then Firefox. All in all I am pretty happy with Ubuntu on my laptop. If all goes well over the next month or so the desktop is also gonna get Ubuntu (10.04 BTW).
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Very good.
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