linpus lite, which was pre-installed on that netbook was too "lite" to be able to connect to the university network. so a nice technician from university put linux ubuntu easy peasy for netbooks on my netbook. that's pretty sweet. really. i can almost imagine staying with linux (instead of having to deal with windows vista).
but there are certain downsides to it: it's not that easy to change things in the system, i.e.: even downloading and installing things requires you (apparently) to type strange things into the so-called "terminal".
actually i managed to download and install the "real player". it took me more than an hour and several webpages. also i really didn't know what i did and wouldn't understand the error messages. but in the end the icon appeared and the program opened. i felt i thereby kind of qualified for using linux, but then my next project, downloading and installing w32codecs and/ or the vp7(0)-thing (don't even know what that is) deplorably failed. so i really don't know.
also, the system is made for the eeepc-branch and is quite slow on this aspire one. additionally one of my keys has stopped working and so i should send it back anyways.
i only got it to check e-mails in boring classes. but i have a break until mid-april, so i totally could send it back and wait for linux-developpers to make an even nicer system for me... ;-)
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