I began by doing an update and installing some of my basic software: sudo apt-get update The initial installation of 13.04 and 13.10 from USB media both worked smoothly and took only a few minutes (wow!). I have an external Wacom Bamboo pen/finger graphics tablet.
In my office, I am usually using an extended desktop between the laptop and an external monitor which is oriented in portrait mode for easy reading of PDFs. I have the X230 Tablet with the 500GB conventional hard drive, 16GB of RAM, and the docking station. I don’t enjoy the fiddling, but I think I’ve had to fiddle already with this hardware. I am entirely wedded to GNU/Linux (ie, it’s all I know) and this is my new primary desktop/computation/teaching machine, so I just want it to work. Here I will recount what I have done to install Ubuntu 13.04 and where I got stuck. It’s nifty, especially with its docking feature, but is not lightweight. I’ll leave it to other reviews to cover the X230T hardware.
Despite the long-time existence of the highly-tuned Emperor Raven, the X230Tablet and Ubuntu turn not to love each other yet, and I have not got all the key features of this hardware working properly. So I got one.Īlas, that web-research of mine was rather hasty and people’s written claims optimistic. I was not very interested in the former until a glance at the googlewikiweb suggested that things had changed since I had last checked, and that Ubuntu now animated the X230-tablet well out of the box, and with no remaining hard-to-solve issues. (Do not buy a laptop, desktop, or server thinking that you will be able to work around any hardware compatibility challenges.)Īt McGill we are offered a subsidised laptop from a menu of two options: a Lenovo X230 packed with Microsoft software and bundled with its docking station, or a Macbook Pro. If you consider yourself a user, not a tinkerer, the number one rule of running GNU/Linux is not even to try it except on hardware that others have already tried with complete success.
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