On Di 13 Aug 2024 at 05:20, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:

On 2024-08-13, Jack Strangio <jackstrangio@yahoo.com> wrote:

root <NoEMail@home.org> writes:

The model is Ideapad 1.15UL7 and comes with Win 11 installed.
I have been running linux on it using an external USB stick.
I would rather eliminate the USB if I can.

Thanks for suggestions.

Linux works well with Lenovo/IBM machinery. These days I only buy Lenovo. >> I customise it when buying it to work very well with Linux.

The laptop I'm writing this on is a Lenovo T410. This is my second Lenovo;
I choose them for the professional-grade keyboard, but they also run Linux quite well.

+1

And there are always good refurbished models on the market for a good
price.

LibreOffice does just about anything MS Office will, unless you're
one of those Excel gurus who uses every little feature. VLC and
mpv do a good job of playing videos and sound files. The latest
versions of Firefox and Thunderbird are available to surf the Web
and process e-mail, and xscreensaver is a prettier screen saver
than anything you'll find under Windows. There are lots of Linux
utilities out there that will do just about anything you want, if
you can live with the fact that they might be a bit different from
their Windows counterparts. Most of these utilities come with a
standard Linux distro, and installation is a breeze.

I live in Emacs and the writing is done with TeX/LaTeX (inside Emacs). Calc-Mode and Org-Mode are also improtant for me.

'Andreas

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ceterum censeo redmondinem esse delendam

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On 13/08/2024 18:17, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

On 2024-08-13, Andreas Eder <a_eder_muc@web.de> wrote:

On Di 13 Aug 2024 at 05:20, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote: >>

On 2024-08-13, Jack Strangio <jackstrangio@yahoo.com> wrote:

root <NoEMail@home.org> writes:

The model is Ideapad 1.15UL7 and comes with Win 11 installed.
I have been running linux on it using an external USB stick.
I would rather eliminate the USB if I can.

Thanks for suggestions.

Linux works well with Lenovo/IBM machinery. These days I only buy Lenovo. >>>> I customise it when buying it to work very well with Linux.

The laptop I'm writing this on is a Lenovo T410. This is my second Lenovo; >>> I choose them for the professional-grade keyboard, but they also run Linux >>> quite well.

+1

And there are always good refurbished models on the market for a good
price.

Yes, I forgot to mention that my machines are refurbs.
A lot of Lenovo laptops come from offices that replace
their machines regularly whether they need to or not.

That same thing.
What often happens is that a 3rd party company has the duty to supply
and maintain the desktops, and after 5 years or so they are not
interested. They will supply new, take the old back, get the disks
crushed and pass what's left onto a refurb company.

Its all about being able to warrant the hardware software and support.

And accountancy rules. 5 years and they are written off against tax already.

We benefirt from machines selling at a lower price than the processors
inside them

--
The lifetime of any political organisation is about three years before
its been subverted by the people it tried to warn you about.

Anon.

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On 2024-08-13, Andreas Eder <a_eder_muc@web.de> wrote:

On Di 13 Aug 2024 at 05:20, Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:

On 2024-08-13, Jack Strangio <jackstrangio@yahoo.com> wrote:

root <NoEMail@home.org> writes:

The model is Ideapad 1.15UL7 and comes with Win 11 installed.
I have been running linux on it using an external USB stick.
I would rather eliminate the USB if I can.

Thanks for suggestions.

Linux works well with Lenovo/IBM machinery. These days I only buy Lenovo. >>> I customise it when buying it to work very well with Linux.

The laptop I'm writing this on is a Lenovo T410. This is my second Lenovo; >> I choose them for the professional-grade keyboard, but they also run Linux >> quite well.

+1

And there are always good refurbished models on the market for a good
price.

Yes, I forgot to mention that my machines are refurbs.
A lot of Lenovo laptops come from offices that replace
their machines regularly whether they need to or not.

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\ / <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> | first society that wouldn't save
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | itself because it wasn't cost-
/ \ if you read it the right way. | effective. -- Kurt Vonnegut

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Bobbie Sellers <blissInSanFrancisco@mouse-potato.com> wrote:

First off run gparted to see what space you might
have on the storage media to which Windows 11 installed.
You seem naive to these procedures so I would check on
the access to the BIOS and do a search on the Web to
see if anyone else has had the idea. I use DuckDuckGo
to search and advise anyone who values privacy.

Use the search term "Install Linux on Ideapad 1.4UL7"
Then come back here and and ask more questions but what
Linux are you planning to install?

bliss- Dell Precision 7730- PCLOS 2024.06- Linux 6.6.45-Plasma 5.27.11

I would install Slackware current.

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D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

Why don't you just try? Make a backup and go for it.

I bought a tiny Celeron computer and tried to install
linux: the device was bricked. That device had Win 11
locked into its firmware.

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Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> writes:

The laptop I'm writing this on is a Lenovo T410. This is my second Lenovo;
I choose them for the professional-grade keyboard, but they also run Linux quite well.

I bought my T410 back in 2010 just before I went to France for just under a year. I can't bear to part with it. I've upgraded the harddrive to 2gigs and replaced a faulty keyboard, and that's all.

Still my favorite laptop keyboard. :)


Jack

--
My wife says I have two faults:
I don't listen and something else.

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