Greetings!
My "bottom line" question/request for assistance would be: I want a
good laptop computer and a recent Fedora distribution.
For more details, I've been "desktop" all of my home life. :-)
However, I am now seeing it would be good to have a laptop to "take
with me" as some things change.
(My mother has Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus. She had a shunt
surgically implanted in 2010, and she is SO MUCH BETTER. But, I still
have to do a lot more for her than I used to. I have even had sleep
deprivation symptoms doing what I can for her each day plus my job plus
trying to keep my house running. Just a highlight here, to let you know
that my time... well, I HAVE NO time!)
I have 2 systems at home, a Sun Ultra 30 running Solaris 8 and a
Linux Pentium 4 computer running Fedora Core 4.
(Yes... you read it right. :-) I installed it in late 2005. By
about 2008 or beyond, when I would, based on my "used to be life"
considered upgrading or installing a newer distribution, my mother was
getting extremely bad. 2008 and 2009 were the worst trials of my life.
I haven't had time since to deal with a newer distribution. However,
these systems are just good computers! They run and run and run and I
rarely, almost never, have a problem! [Good thing!] When my house was
struck directly by lightning in 2008, the Sun computer had been running
456 days. [That's DAYS, not hours. A year and a half. And the Linux was
not too far behind!)
So!
I chatted with a Dell agent last night. <sigh> Frankly, I don't see
why I need to pay money for Microsoft Windows software when I won't even
be running Windows on the laptop I want to consider purchasing!
I figure that people here will know good places where you can get a
laptop, either without Windows software or even with Linux already placed
on it!
I would want it to be fairly good, multiple CPUs, at least 8 GB of
memory. Though I love games, again (see above) I don't have time! I
wouldn't be a gamer, but I would be interested in OpenOffice and using a
web browser, etc., as well as just my normal software. A software
engineer, I've programmed a lot of my own software, starting back in the
mid 1980's, and still prefer to use it.
If anyone can suggest a place (perhaps including URLs so I could see
for myself) where I can purchase a good and reliable laptop, that would be
nice. If anyone here has purchased one, and has used it for a year or
longer and had no problems, I'd love to hear about it.
And, a recent (whether or not it is whatever the current/most recent)
distribution of Fedora. As you can see if you've read this far, I am not
going to have time to do much in the way of software installation or play
with things... I've done that and loved it, but I just can't right now.
So, if the newest distribution still perhaps has bugs being worked out,
the next one back would be okay.
I'm open! :-)
Thank you.
Barry
---------- Post added at 02:10 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:08 PM ----------
Greetings!
My "bottom line" question/request for assistance would be: I want a
good laptop computer and a recent Fedora distribution.
For more details, I've been "desktop" all of my home life. :-)
However, I am now seeing it would be good to have a laptop to "take
with me" as some things change.
(My mother has Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus. She had a shunt
surgically implanted in 2010, and she is SO MUCH BETTER. But, I still
have to do a lot more for her than I used to. I have even had sleep
deprivation symptoms doing what I can for her each day plus my job plus
trying to keep my house running. Just a highlight here, to let you know
that my time... well, I HAVE NO time!)
I have 2 systems at home, a Sun Ultra 30 running Solaris 8 and a
Linux Pentium 4 computer running Fedora Core 4.
(Yes... you read it right. :-) I installed it in late 2005. By
about 2008 or beyond, when I would, based on my "used to be life"
considered upgrading or installing a newer distribution, my mother was
getting extremely bad. 2008 and 2009 were the worst trials of my life.
I haven't had time since to deal with a newer distribution. However,
these systems are just good computers! They run and run and run and I
rarely, almost never, have a problem! [Good thing!] When my house was
struck directly by lightning in 2008, the Sun computer had been running
456 days. [That's DAYS, not hours. A year and a half. And the Linux was
not too far behind!)
So!
I chatted with a Dell agent last night. <sigh> Frankly, I don't see
why I need to pay money for Microsoft Windows software when I won't even
be running Windows on the laptop I want to consider purchasing!
I figure that people here will know good places where you can get a
laptop, either without Windows software or even with Linux already placed
on it!
I would want it to be fairly good, multiple CPUs, at least 8 GB of
memory. Though I love games, again (see above) I don't have time! I
wouldn't be a gamer, but I would be interested in OpenOffice and using a
web browser, etc., as well as just my normal software. A software
engineer, I've programmed a lot of my own software, starting back in the
mid 1980's, and still prefer to use it.
If anyone can suggest a place (perhaps including URLs so I could see
for myself) where I can purchase a good and reliable laptop, that would be
nice. If anyone here has purchased one, and has used it for a year or
longer and had no problems, I'd love to hear about it.
And, a recent (whether or not it is whatever the current/most recent)
distribution of Fedora. As you can see if you've read this far, I am not
going to have time to do much in the way of software installation or play
with things... I've done that and loved it, but I just can't right now.
So, if the newest distribution still perhaps has bugs being worked out,
the next one back would be okay.
I'm open! :-)
Thank you.
Barry
My "bottom line" question/request for assistance would be: I want a
good laptop computer and a recent Fedora distribution.
For more details, I've been "desktop" all of my home life. :-)
However, I am now seeing it would be good to have a laptop to "take
with me" as some things change.
(My mother has Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus. She had a shunt
surgically implanted in 2010, and she is SO MUCH BETTER. But, I still
have to do a lot more for her than I used to. I have even had sleep
deprivation symptoms doing what I can for her each day plus my job plus
trying to keep my house running. Just a highlight here, to let you know
that my time... well, I HAVE NO time!)
I have 2 systems at home, a Sun Ultra 30 running Solaris 8 and a
Linux Pentium 4 computer running Fedora Core 4.
(Yes... you read it right. :-) I installed it in late 2005. By
about 2008 or beyond, when I would, based on my "used to be life"
considered upgrading or installing a newer distribution, my mother was
getting extremely bad. 2008 and 2009 were the worst trials of my life.
I haven't had time since to deal with a newer distribution. However,
these systems are just good computers! They run and run and run and I
rarely, almost never, have a problem! [Good thing!] When my house was
struck directly by lightning in 2008, the Sun computer had been running
456 days. [That's DAYS, not hours. A year and a half. And the Linux was
not too far behind!)
So!
I chatted with a Dell agent last night. <sigh> Frankly, I don't see
why I need to pay money for Microsoft Windows software when I won't even
be running Windows on the laptop I want to consider purchasing!
I figure that people here will know good places where you can get a
laptop, either without Windows software or even with Linux already placed
on it!
I would want it to be fairly good, multiple CPUs, at least 8 GB of
memory. Though I love games, again (see above) I don't have time! I
wouldn't be a gamer, but I would be interested in OpenOffice and using a
web browser, etc., as well as just my normal software. A software
engineer, I've programmed a lot of my own software, starting back in the
mid 1980's, and still prefer to use it.
If anyone can suggest a place (perhaps including URLs so I could see
for myself) where I can purchase a good and reliable laptop, that would be
nice. If anyone here has purchased one, and has used it for a year or
longer and had no problems, I'd love to hear about it.
And, a recent (whether or not it is whatever the current/most recent)
distribution of Fedora. As you can see if you've read this far, I am not
going to have time to do much in the way of software installation or play
with things... I've done that and loved it, but I just can't right now.
So, if the newest distribution still perhaps has bugs being worked out,
the next one back would be okay.
I'm open! :-)
Thank you.
Barry
---------- Post added at 02:10 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:08 PM ----------
Greetings!
My "bottom line" question/request for assistance would be: I want a
good laptop computer and a recent Fedora distribution.
For more details, I've been "desktop" all of my home life. :-)
However, I am now seeing it would be good to have a laptop to "take
with me" as some things change.
(My mother has Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus. She had a shunt
surgically implanted in 2010, and she is SO MUCH BETTER. But, I still
have to do a lot more for her than I used to. I have even had sleep
deprivation symptoms doing what I can for her each day plus my job plus
trying to keep my house running. Just a highlight here, to let you know
that my time... well, I HAVE NO time!)
I have 2 systems at home, a Sun Ultra 30 running Solaris 8 and a
Linux Pentium 4 computer running Fedora Core 4.
(Yes... you read it right. :-) I installed it in late 2005. By
about 2008 or beyond, when I would, based on my "used to be life"
considered upgrading or installing a newer distribution, my mother was
getting extremely bad. 2008 and 2009 were the worst trials of my life.
I haven't had time since to deal with a newer distribution. However,
these systems are just good computers! They run and run and run and I
rarely, almost never, have a problem! [Good thing!] When my house was
struck directly by lightning in 2008, the Sun computer had been running
456 days. [That's DAYS, not hours. A year and a half. And the Linux was
not too far behind!)
So!
I chatted with a Dell agent last night. <sigh> Frankly, I don't see
why I need to pay money for Microsoft Windows software when I won't even
be running Windows on the laptop I want to consider purchasing!
I figure that people here will know good places where you can get a
laptop, either without Windows software or even with Linux already placed
on it!
I would want it to be fairly good, multiple CPUs, at least 8 GB of
memory. Though I love games, again (see above) I don't have time! I
wouldn't be a gamer, but I would be interested in OpenOffice and using a
web browser, etc., as well as just my normal software. A software
engineer, I've programmed a lot of my own software, starting back in the
mid 1980's, and still prefer to use it.
If anyone can suggest a place (perhaps including URLs so I could see
for myself) where I can purchase a good and reliable laptop, that would be
nice. If anyone here has purchased one, and has used it for a year or
longer and had no problems, I'd love to hear about it.
And, a recent (whether or not it is whatever the current/most recent)
distribution of Fedora. As you can see if you've read this far, I am not
going to have time to do much in the way of software installation or play
with things... I've done that and loved it, but I just can't right now.
So, if the newest distribution still perhaps has bugs being worked out,
the next one back would be okay.
I'm open! :-)
Thank you.
Barry