The Trials and Travails of Linux on a Laptop
Over the years I've been slowly working towards getting myself a laptop, but ultimately one thing or another stopped me. But these days you almost can't live without one. So I finally made the plunge. But obviously before I did that I also spent a decent amount of time researching whether or not Linux or Freebsd would work on said laptop before I bought it.
So, after much shopping, hemming and hawing, I ended up settling on a Toshiba Satellite. I picked the laptop more for the fact that several of my friends have owned Toshiba Satellites and have never had a single issue with them. The beauty of Toshiba's laptops, especially the Satellite line, is that even the cheap ones are built like tanks. While not indestructible, they definitely take a lot more of a beating, and perform much better in the long haul, than most other laptops. A friend of mine, who was a long time Toshiba Satellite owner, and a satisfied one at that, once went and bought a dell. 6 months later she had ditched the Dell and had a brand new Satellite that she's been loving every since.
Overall they're a great laptop. One of the best on the market. They're also very Linux friendly. All my research into this laptop line said that they would happily take Linux, Freebsd or pretty much anything I wanted to throw at them. So I found a special on a Satellite A215 model.
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