urbandryad
May 12th, 2011, 04:54 PM
Hi! I have recently purchased an Acer Aspire One D255E netbook with Windows 7 Starter edition, and have been dual booting Ubuntu using a Wubi installer for about a week now.
Everything works fine, at least, everything that I use. I haven't tested the ethernet port, audio seems to work fine. The mouse pad gestures don't work but I didn't suspect they would. Frankly, everything is running smoothly. I'm using the Classic Desktop by preference.
I've been thinking that a full install would probably be a better idea, since I don't use Windows, and I hate Windows 7 Starter with a passion. Yuck. But the man who sold me this laptop said I would break the warranty or what have you if I installed overtop of the pre-installed operating system.
Advise? Continue to dual boot with Wubi, not being able to make use of the entire 250GB hard drive but assured that I could always restore it to the previous operating system in a pinch?
Or say to heck with my one year warranty and install the lot? Anyone have experience with this? Is it really an issue at all?
I also want anyone who has this netbook to let me know how their installation went and any advice about installing Ubuntu to netbooks, links, experiences, would be appreciated. Thank you!
Everything works fine, at least, everything that I use. I haven't tested the ethernet port, audio seems to work fine. The mouse pad gestures don't work but I didn't suspect they would. Frankly, everything is running smoothly. I'm using the Classic Desktop by preference.
I've been thinking that a full install would probably be a better idea, since I don't use Windows, and I hate Windows 7 Starter with a passion. Yuck. But the man who sold me this laptop said I would break the warranty or what have you if I installed overtop of the pre-installed operating system.
Advise? Continue to dual boot with Wubi, not being able to make use of the entire 250GB hard drive but assured that I could always restore it to the previous operating system in a pinch?
Or say to heck with my one year warranty and install the lot? Anyone have experience with this? Is it really an issue at all?
I also want anyone who has this netbook to let me know how their installation went and any advice about installing Ubuntu to netbooks, links, experiences, would be appreciated. Thank you!