PC in the UK for Linux

davholla · 05-11-2008, 03:15 PM

I need to get a new PC my current one is too slow (20 Gb hardrive which is filling up with photos) and 256 MB RAM.

Has anyone bought a PC in the UK recently which they use for dual boot and are happy with it ?

saikee · 05-11-2008, 04:16 PM

Don't think there is a PC that cannot do dual boot.

Windows, Linux, Solaris and BSD are all designed to be installed in a PC and all their boot loaders can dual boot, normally able to handle 4 systems at least.

Don't think it matters where you got it either.

hob · 05-11-2008, 04:56 PM

These days you are only likely to hit hardware problems with Linux on laptops. If you are thinking of buying a laptop, then Dell UK or EfficientPC both sell laptops preloaded with Ubuntu, as well as desktops. If you want to very sure of the hardware support you could buy one of Dell machines certified for Linux and specify Windows, then repartition it yourself.

davholla · 05-12-2008, 02:59 AM

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Originally Posted by hob

These days you are only likely to hit hardware problems with Linux on laptops. If you are thinking of buying a laptop, then Dell UK or EfficientPC both sell laptops preloaded with Ubuntu, as well as desktops. If you want to very sure of the hardware support you could buy one of Dell machines certified for Linux and specify Windows, then repartition it yourself.

Excellent news. Has anyone bought a PC recently that was really awful/good ?

saikee · 05-12-2008, 04:08 AM

I have loaded Linux to HP, Dell, BenQ and Avent. Don't think they are different from the desktop.

It is quite common that a laptop is fitted with a strip-down video card resulting the distro failing to match with the correct driver resulting a loss of video initially. To overcome it one can try several distros. When one works then just apply the same video driver in other Linux that fail to use that driver. This is no different to desktop machines which are less prone to video mis-matching.