What's new with OS for Netbook

elrasho · 19 Mar 2011 at 23:49

I've got bored of WinXP on my netbook and want to try something different. About a year ago I was looking at Jolicloud, Ubuntu Netbook Remix and Mint, has anything changed with these OS's since?

All I use my Netbook for is checking emails, youtube and OCUK forum ofcourse

Muel · 20 Mar 2011 at 01:40

I've used XP, W7, OSX, Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Netbook on my NC10.

Ubuntu Netbook is my current, and it's a massive let down. Several annoying little issues and habits it has, including lagging for 30 secs at a time, refusing to bring the file browser to the front until Opera is minimised and several others.

Ubuntu Desktop worked alright, couldn't really fault it until it started crashing all the time and had to be wiped.

W7 was too heavy for it and ran really slowly.

XP is kinda old and ugly, but ran perfectly.

godinman · 20 Mar 2011 at 07:41

W7 starter seems to work well on a 1.6 atoms with 1GB ram.

Gammawolf · 20 Mar 2011 at 09:19

Muel said:
I've used XP, W7, OSX, Ubuntu Desktop and Ubuntu Netbook on my NC10.

Ubuntu Netbook is my current, and it's a massive let down. Several annoying little issues and habits it has, including lagging for 30 secs at a time, refusing to bring the file browser to the front until Opera is minimised and several others.

Ubuntu Desktop worked alright, couldn't really fault it until it started crashing all the time and had to be wiped.

W7 was too heavy for it and ran really slowly.

XP is kinda old and ugly, but ran perfectly.

I run XP with a hyperdesk darkmatter subspace theme, fools everyone into thinking its some kind of cool OS

arobase · 21 Mar 2011 at 02:21

I'm using Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 Netbook ed. (x64) on every Laptops I have (Asus M51Vr, MSI-X600 and Acer 1825PTZ) for a long time and really like it. Accelerometer is functionnal with Acer Aspire 1825PTZ, but I had to upgrade to Maverick 10.10 in order to get it 100% functionnal, including multitouch touchscreen !

Same for my other netbooks...

At the moment, I'm developping a specific version of Android Froyo for my Acer 1825PTZ with multitouch display, still in beta version though... ^^
Accelerometer will soon be functionnal.

Occasionnaly I use Windows XP or 7 depending on the use, but I don't really need them...

My next goal will be Meego for the Acer Aspire 1825PTZ, but just for fun and as a challenge. Android is a better bet for this machine.

EDIT : I made some experiments with OSX, but don't really like... ^^