[ale] Basic Laptop for presentations question

[scott mcbrien]

Richard,
I currently use a Mac as well, but until November last year, I ran laptops
with RHEL for the previous 7 years.  In the beginning, things were painful,
but my last one, at Lenovo T60 was pretty easy.  I mentioned the wackiness
with the external VGA port on this thread earlier, but other than that,
never had a problem with the machine.  I know I'm a pretty light "desktop"
user, chat, web, email, and a little office; but for all those things RHEL,
or CentOS worked well.  I would have run Fedora as my laptop distro, but was
lazy and didn't want to re-install every 4-6 months.

What kind of issues were you having with running a Linux Laptop?
*crosses fingers* Please don't say hibernate/suspend...

-Scott

On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:39 AM, Richard Bronosky <Richard at bronosky.com>wrote:

> I've vented on this very issue many times. I have been doing all my
> work via SSH to Linux servers (ssh+screen+bash+vim+mysql all day
> everyday) for so long I thought of myself as a "Linux guy"... until I
> tried using a laptop. The entire GUI stack just drives me crazy. But,
> it was trying to get a decent portable workstation that drove me to
> give my ThinkPad back to my employer and ask for a MacBook Pro. I
> can't wait until I can scrap the Mac forever. Until I can spend 75% of
> my computing time doing my work and not trying to get my machine to
> work, I'm a "Linux server guy" and a "Mac laptop guy". I hate that it
> has to be that way!
>
> .!# RichardBronosky #!.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 5:41 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Warning: This message contributes nothing helpful to the conversation.
> >
> > The problem detailed in this thread is one of the biggest reasons (top
> > 3) I decided to buy an Apple laptop. I had been using Dell laptops
> > issued to me through work/school. So I was well aware of the problems
> > that can arise when using a Linux laptop to do presentations. I must
> > say, I am extremely happy I made the decision I did.
> >
> > A Unix based OS with a GUI that makes doing presentations and such
> > easy? That would be OS X.
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