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[jadesfire]

Guess where I'm typing this from?!? That's right, my new laptop is here! For those of you who are wondering what on earth I'm talking about, my latest toy is an Acer Aspire One and it rocks! Of course, when it comes to things like anti-virus or adding programmes, you guys are going to have to hold my hand, but for now, I'm just playing! And finding what doesn't work, like the @ and " signs being mixed around and something truly weird going on with ctrl+v...

But for now, I'm just seriously over-excited to actually have it! I can type absolutely fine on the keyboard, the webcam is fun and apart from the text size in the posting box for LJ, everything is incredibly clear on the screen. It runs YouTube just fine and I'm sure I'll get the hang of the mouse scroll eventually.

So. Excited!!!! *bounces like a bouncy thing*

Stand down, everybody. I installed the updates and it now won't turn on.

...

No comment.

It's working again. For now... I sense this could be the beginning of a difficult friendship.

Comments

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

Did you manage to get it with XP installed, or did they foist Vista onto you?
Neither! I'm running Linpuslite, which is Acer's version of Linux. They don't call it Linux for dummies, but it's certainly easy to use! It turned out that one of the updates that I thought had broken the damn thing was a 'keyboard settings' menu, and I could suddenly just open a menu and change it instead of wrestling with the code.

AVG do a version for Linux. Which will be great once I figure out installing new programmes...

[hellenebright.livejournal.com]

Immense coolness - no Gatesgoo!!!!

You're OK if it comes with a package manager, but as I know nothing whatever about Acer's distro, I'll shut up now...

[jadesfire2808.livejournal.com]

I plan to get myself a copy of 'Linux for Dummies' because the guides I've found all seem to make too many assumptions about what I know! This could take me a while, but you can bet I'll be asking you guys for help ;)