[GTALUG] I'm discarding an old notebook!

[Don Tai]

"Wow.  The first thing I called a netbook was the Asus Eee PC from late
2007.  The same era as my Acer Aspire 9300 that we're talking about."

That's exactly what I have! Don't run W10, but W XP!

On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 at 14:36, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
wrote:

> | From: Don Tai via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
>
> | That's sad. You could try running an external monitor.
>
> An external monitor doesn't (normally) bypass the video card so it
> doesn't bypass my driver problem.
>
> | I'd give up on Linux
> | and run Win.
>
> That doesn't work either.  I mentioned earlier that installing Win 10
> fails for unknown reasons.  It gets stuck in this loop:
>
> - something went wrong, but don't worry, just give me an internet
>   connection and I'll do updates.  That should fix it.
>
> - time passes
>
> The biggest problem is that NVidia stopped supporting the video controller
> on Windows some time ago (before Win 10).  Just like on Linux.
>
> The hardest problems, on Windows and Linux, are from NVidia.
> - not releasing new video drivers
> - not releasing sufficient specs to enable the open source driver to work
> - (probably) a bug in the video hardware when system has more than 2G
>   of RAM
>
> | I still have a 2002 Dell netbook running WinXP specifically for Chinese
> | social media QQ. No email or secure stuff. The only browser that I can
> find
> | that still runs is Opera, which is also Chinese owned. The system is
> | completely isolated, and I expect it to get hacked.
>
> Wow.  The first thing I called a netbook was the Asus Eee PC from late
> 2007.  The same era as my Acer Aspire 9300 that we're talking about.
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