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Geoff Charlton
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Better laptops
I’m looking for a new laptop to run Ubuntu on. I have a Dell Inspiron N5110, which works most of the time. If I hibernate it, the screen can go blocky, but a reboot fixes this. Could you curate a list of reader’s laptops and what distros/versions they’re running and any problems they have? Turns out PC World aren’t too happy if you try to reboot their demo machines with a USB stick…
Neil says…
Your hibernation issue sounds like this bug report (https://bit.ly/lxf267bug). Low-power, sleep and hibernate features have always been a bit of a poor show with Linux, as often these are implemented between hardware manufacturers and Microsoft, meaning they’re often plugged into Linux later on.
That’s an interesting idea about a reader database but I wonder how useful it would be? There’s already such things online and the problem is that they end up being woefully out of date. Furthermore, if most laptop models cannot be bought then how is it actually helping anyone? As in these will be old models I’d guess.