So, I was going to get a System76 laptop, when Alicia pointed out that I can get twice the computer for ~$300 less by buying a Toshiba A215-7437. I told her about my epic yet ultimately futile struggle with Linux laptops and laptop wireless cards, but her faith in the open source community would not waver. Finally, she sold me, and we got one.
Well, my fear proved well-founded. We were about to scrap the plan, when the community over on an incredibly useful blog post centered around getting Ubuntu up on the A215-S7407 (which is basically the same computer) saved the day. I’ve now got wireless on the computer, and I have faith that the sound card stuff can eventually be resolved.
Until then, though, I’ve kept Vista around on another partition for the podcasting stuff. (BTW, Ubuntu makes dual-booting stupid simple.) But at least now I have a mobile development environment that’s worth something!
One Comment
See, obviously my faith was well founded…it was possible and you did it! Even though it was kind of a headache…