Comment by pjmlp
2 years ago
So I thought when I bought my Asus 1215B netbook (remember those?), and had my share of headaches related to the 3D support (when AMD drivers got rebooted), video acceleration (still doesn't work), and a wlan driver that keeps losing connections to my home router, forcing me to use a LAN cable instead.
Ah, and rebooting occasionally requires taking the battery off as workaround to take it out of an UEFI zombie state.
Did you call their support to get it fixed? I'm guessing you didn't, since the 1215B didn't ship with Linux, according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asus_Eee_PC
Interestingly, I had a few of the earlier models that did (701, 901 iirc) and their support for Linux was great. Certainly light years ahead of my efforts to put Linux in a Dell a few years prior.
Typical Linux fan answer on the Internet, apparently Wikipedia knows better than me, having bought it.
Not only it shipped with a custom Asus distribution for media play called Linux Express, it had Ubuntu on it.
Not surprising, since I don't know you. I tried to confirm your claims and only found confirmation that it didn't ship with Linux.
What is surprising that you come back with ad-hominem arguments ("typical Linux fan answer," "knows better than me") in lieu of hard evidence.
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