[ltp] Thinking of leaving Thinkpads

[Maciej Musial]

I was using Linux for many years on my T40p, different distributions
(Slackware, Gentoo, Arch, and for longest time Ubuntu). With Slack and
Gentoo there were some difficulties (it wasn't exactly difficult -
rather time consuming but it was kind of fun ;)) to make everything
working. With Arch, I don't remember excatly but rather everything was
ok. The best one was Ubuntu - always everything, or almost everything
was working out of box (last time I was not able to make VGA out
working).

Now I've got also W500, Ubuntu 9.10 works great. i've only installed
it and spend time to set wallpaper, icons etc ;) Runing and starting
very fast. Only fingerprint is not working :/

I can't say anything good about WinXP (which I've get with it). Runing
slowly, it takes ages before it will boot and will be ready to work.
Ati catalyst drivers are not working at all... Piece of s... I'm happy
I don't need to use it very often.


2010/4/2 Jesse Sheidlower <jester@panix.com>:
> On Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 10:35:23AM +0200, Shot (Piotr Szotkowski) wrote:
>> Jesse Sheidlower:
>>
>> > I just installed Ubuntu 9.10 and then 10.04 beta on an x301 and
>> > a W500 with no problems at all, everything worked out of the box.
>>
>> What=92s the state of graphics performance on the X301?
>>
>> I=92m sticking to Ubuntu 9.04 on my X301, because both 9.10 and
>> 10.04 use newer Intel video drivers (without support for some
>> crucial three-letter acronym) and the 3D performance is definitely
>> worse (framerate in glxgears is almost exactly halved, for example).
>
> I don't know, to be honest. I don't do anything
> graphics-intensive, and the default install works fine for my
> needs, so I never looked into it further.
>
> Similarly, on the W500 I'm just using the integrated graphics
> chip, not the fancy secondary one, because something or other
> didn't work properly and it was easier to just use the onboard
> one because it doesn't matter.
>
> But if there's something I can run to give you statistics,
> without reinstalling the OS or whatever, I'm happy to do so.
>
> Jesse Sheidlower
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