Switching back to Linux. Well, soon.
I’ve been using the Eee PC 701 for almost two years now, and it’s been pretty neat. It’s super portable, and the Windows XP installation has been pretty good to me.
Well, until recently. Sometime after Mozilla rolled out Firefox 3.5, I’ve been getting nothing but constant crashes out of my Eee PC. Switching to Chrome and later Opera helped a bit, but I’ve pretty much lost the ability to multitask. Imagine: I’m doing an article on my Eee PC and I have my IM programs running on my Nokia E63; sometimes I even torrent via my phone.
So I defragged, ran an antispyware and virus scan, and removed a lot of crap from the registry, and somehow XP seems to have stabilized. Still can’t get Firefox to work, though. I might downgrade to FF 2.5. I’m sticking with XP prolly for an extra week or two, but the moment I get another major crash as I write in My Asus Eee PC, I’m switching asap to Crunchbang Lite.
What do you guys think? Do you have any other OS recommendations?
November 25th, 2009 at 7:14 pm
I´ve been using Jolicloud on my 701 for about two months and I think it´s great. It´s on Alpha version but it´s already going to be on Beta.
November 28th, 2009 at 6:55 am
Amusingly enough, I also put Jolicloud on my 701 several months ago. I don’t use it very frequently, but it has been working fine for me most of the time – outside of a few screen resolution issues.
Crunchbang Lite does look interesting, however. If I ever need to get more serious linux work done on the 701, I will consider that as an option.
January 2nd, 2010 at 11:18 pm
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