Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on a Lenovo ThinkPad x100e

[Guitar John]

My wife just got an 11" MacBook Air, so I am setting her old computer up for my Sister-in-Law. I did a clean install of 12.04 LTS. The machine has 2 GB RAM, so I stayed with the 32 bit version, although this computer will support the 64 bit version. It has the AMD Athlon(tm) Neo Processor MV-40.

I installed with a separate /home partition following these instructions.

So far everything has worked flawlessly. I installed Ubuntu Restricted Extras, lame, GnuCash, Asunder, Weather Indicator and that's about it. Setting up WiFi was as simple as plugging in the password (WPA2).

One thing that I did notice was that I didn't have to install GPointing Device Settings to get the TrackPoint to work. Scrolling worked right out of the box.

Comparing the appearance to OS X, and even some of the set-up procedure, it's plain to see that they took some cues from Mac. That may bother some folks, but just like OS X, Ubuntu has a distinctive look and way of doing things.

Any questions, let me know.
-John

[armandh]

I am running Ubuntu 12.04 on a 4 YO Dell mini 9 with 2Gb ram.
drag it to meetings,
and if I shut off all the useless [xp] services
XP in virtual box runs my quick books fast enough.

Both windows 7 home and starter 32 bit with avast AV
ran too slow and very warm.

[vcrpex]

still running 10.10 on my asus 1015px netbook. windows 7 starter is really slow. though 10.10 is no longer supported, but it still work like a charm for me. really quite lazy to update to the latest version nowadays.