[GTALUG] I'm discarding an old notebook!

[Don Tai]

Correction, no I don't have an Asus Eee PC running.It is broken, but a Dell
inspiron 1011, Intel Atom 1.6Ghz

On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 at 14:50, Don Tai <dontai.canada at gmail.com> wrote:

> "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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