Choosing an operating system for a netbook?

nekufa2011-01-25 21:43:52

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nekufa, 2011-01-25 21:43:52

Help, choose an operating system for a netbook.
There was a seven in the kit - well, it was painfully barely tossing and turning.
You can forget about YouTube, even the audio from VKontakte does not play.
I decided to stick ubuntu - wi-fi is not supported.
And I didn’t find any information about what kind of chipset is here (except for the company - atheros).
I think that in windows xp there will be the same garbage with firewood.
1. Can you forget about Linux at all?
2. What then to put - back the seven?
ps Netbook Lenovo S10-3s

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VBart, 2011-01-25
@VBart

Connect with a cable and in Ubuntu:
System -> Administration -> Hardware drivers
and install proprietary drivers from the manufacturer.

Roman Blinov, 2011-01-25
@Teenspirit

On lenovo s12, I calmly installed Ubuntu 9.04 Netbook Remix, wi-fi worked, as they say, out of the box.
Now it costs WinXP, it works fine.
Drivers for your netbook (under winxp) are on the manufacturer's website

VBart, 2011-01-25
@VBart

forum.ubuntu.ru/index.php?topic=93987.0 and generally google on Intel 5150 and Ubuntu

Bambre, 2011-01-25
@Bambre

I have a lenovo S10-3t, the adapter is the same as yours. I'm sitting under Ubuntu 10.10, Wi-Fi works "out of the box" like clockwork. Nothing else needed to be configured for this. If it helps, I can look at the parameters of some thread in my system and throw it here

nd0ut, 2011-01-25
@nd0ut

In Google it is written that you need to enable the repository of proprietary drivers.goo.gl/GkgRZ
Then try to update the drivers by first connecting the beech to the wire.

Tamillia, 2011-01-25
@Tamillia

Under Lenovo netbooks, Linux systems are usually installed. It is strange that we have problems with Wi-fi, especially in Ubuntu.
Feel free to install WIndows XP - it's the most for netbooks.
If there are problems with firewood, we should have a disk with all the things attached to the netbook ... They will definitely work on Windows

yeputons, 2011-01-26
@yeputons

If there was Windows 7 Starter, you can either demolish all antiviruses ( especially McAfee), or install a clean Home Basic. My friend's second point helped. Contra stopped slowing down on minimum settings

Puma Thailand, 2011-01-26
@opium

There are 470 atoms, YouTube will fly on the seven.

Alexey Smirnov, 2011-01-26
@lexmirnov

Try Jolicloud, a user-friendly Linux distribution.

Dmitry Serzhenko, 2011-01-26
@Serzhenko

I put Crunchbang on Lenovo S12 . Satisfied like a horse)

G3kas, 2011-01-31
@G3kas

lenovo S10-2 Ubuntu desktop 10.10 everything works out of the box (except for the brightness control, but this feature doesn’t work for me in Windows)