Install Linux On Dell Xps 10
An early laptop receiving a weather chart, somewhere in the Pacific during my, circa 1990 As time passes, putting Linux on a laptop is becoming easier, because: • The Linux kernel is growing up and showing more awareness of the nature of the machines on which it is installed. • The technical distinction between a laptop and a desktop is becoming smaller. • The percentage of overall PC sales represented by laptops is becoming bigger, forcing a recognition of their requirements. I remember early laptops and how profoundly they differed from desktops.
I also remember early Linux kernels and how they would strangle on anything but a small number of widely known desktop models. Early laptops tended to be very expensive for their abilities. They gave the dinstinct impression that they were an imitation of the Real Thing™, sort of like a dollhouse instead of a house — a rehearsal for desktop reality.
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Laptops also tended to have rather short lives compared to desktops. I can't tell you how many laptops I've thrown away after embarrassingly short service lives, including perhaps half a dozen, now sleeping with the fishes, tossed overboard as I sailed around the world. Some of these issues are present in current laptops, but to a lesser degree. They're still more expensive than desktops of the same capacity and processing speed, and they do tend to expire more quickly, but manufacturers are reacting to their popularity by engineering them better, and well-understood market forces are making them less expensive. Given the history of laptops as a plaything of wealthy early technology adopters, perhaps it will surprise you to know that MIT's Nicholas Negroponte has chosen laptops for his much-discussed project, meant to make modern computer technology available to third world children.