"Wow. The first thing I called a netbook was the Asus Eee PC from late 2007. The same era as my Acer Aspire 9300 that we're talking about." That's exactly what I have! Don't run W10, but W XP! On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 at 14:36, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
| From: Don Tai via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
| That's sad. You could try running an external monitor.
An external monitor doesn't (normally) bypass the video card so it doesn't bypass my driver problem.
| I'd give up on Linux | and run Win.
That doesn't work either. I mentioned earlier that installing Win 10 fails for unknown reasons. It gets stuck in this loop:
- something went wrong, but don't worry, just give me an internet connection and I'll do updates. That should fix it.
- time passes
The biggest problem is that NVidia stopped supporting the video controller on Windows some time ago (before Win 10). Just like on Linux.
The hardest problems, on Windows and Linux, are from NVidia. - not releasing new video drivers - not releasing sufficient specs to enable the open source driver to work - (probably) a bug in the video hardware when system has more than 2G of RAM
| I still have a 2002 Dell netbook running WinXP specifically for Chinese | social media QQ. No email or secure stuff. The only browser that I can find | that still runs is Opera, which is also Chinese owned. The system is | completely isolated, and I expect it to get hacked.
Wow. The first thing I called a netbook was the Asus Eee PC from late 2007. The same era as my Acer Aspire 9300 that we're talking about. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk