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Acer has unveiled their latest CULV notebook – the Acer Aspire 1830T also known as Acer Aspire 1410. It comes with a nice core i5 processor and has all the nice stuff you expect from a powerful computer.I encountered two pretty massive flaws when I tried installing this on a computer for my mom:
1) The kernel module for ndiswrapper is not installed correctly by default. This means that if you use a network card that requires ndiswrapper (admittedly not the best approach), you'll first need another kind of internet access in order to update the related packages, even though ndiswrapper is apparently intended to work out of the box.
2) The nouveau driver, though stable, is slightly buggy when used with Cinnamon and whatever login manager Mint 15 uses. Switching to proprietary drivers caused the login manager to crash repeatedly, and was generally not usable.
These may be issues with Ubuntu as well, but obviously a distro purporting to be user-friendly should not ship with such glaring flaws.
1) The kernel module for ndiswrapper is not installed correctly by default. This means that if you use a network card that requires ndiswrapper (admittedly not the best approach), you'll first need another kind of internet access in order to update the related packages, even though ndiswrapper is apparently intended to work out of the box.
2) The nouveau driver, though stable, is slightly buggy when used with Cinnamon and whatever login manager Mint 15 uses. Switching to proprietary drivers caused the login manager to crash repeatedly, and was generally not usable.
These may be issues with Ubuntu as well, but obviously a distro purporting to be user-friendly should not ship with such glaring flaws.
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