Does Ubuntu work well on it?
371417
I haven't tried yet. This is my wife's laptop now and she likes Win 8. Once I get a tablet for her, I will put Ubuntu on it.
2103341
It should be able to run it no problem. I recommend you don't run any big programs in the background and use your laptop on a hard smooth surface.
12404
I use mine on a Linux machine, no problem so far; though I have not thoroughly put it through the paces.
416858
No just the APU, but that's more than enough for most games I've thrown at it. EVE Online, GW 2, and WoT all run great.
2230527
Yes it is got no problems what so ever. Just make sure that it can handle you graphics card.
46446
No, it also needs RAM and a hard drive. I bought the hard drive and ram that were listed under "what others bought with this systems" and they're working pretty well so far. Installed Ubuntu, and am using it with a projection screen as a home theater PC.
1456484
It should work well, since you already have the minimum config for it to run. I have seen it running on a 1 RAM, and 1.7 ghz, thus you should be fine. All you might get is a 5,5 ms latency, but that is nothing to worry, since it is a reasonable latency and will run fine.
221743
I am running 64bit ubuntu server without any problem, I do not run win8, I think it should be fine.
290706
It works fine with Ubuntu and I see no reason why it wouldn't work OK with CentOS etc. Is there a particular flavour you want to run on it?
1459781
It should do ok with those programs but I haven't used them much on it. There is a good amount of ram and everything that I have run so far that has been fairly intensive has worked well. I would recommend this laptop to pretty much anyone. Great deal for a great product.
2125544
As a general PC it is fine. We are not using it for gaming. Boot up takes maybe 15 seconds.
575588
Firefox comes standard. Ubuntu is a Linux operating system instead of Windows or Mac OS. If you dont know how to use it, it can be a bit of a challenge at first with all the commands but there are TONS of videos on YouTube to learn how to use it. It is OK for games but it is NOT very powerful. You get what you pay for. I have mine to run a 3D Printer I designed and built and it works great for that. For graphics intense games you will not get what you want. If they are not very intense it should be OK. There are plenty of ports and can hook a big monitor to it if you want.
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It will run pretty well. There's a video on youtube with someone running it with only 1GB of RAM and it's fine. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AykH-zUcPJw
1339181
I'm running both Win7-64 and Ubuntu 10.04LTS-64 (dual boot). No problems at all. Great little laptop.
534794
Yes it does, that's the operating system that I use it on. I have not had any problems.
821087
It would work, but it's kind of slow - even when doing things like just web surfing and opening files. You could spend a little more and get something with noticeably better performance, and you would be happier. But if this is all you can afford, I think it's not a bad choice.
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Indeed, Windows 8 isn't 100% stable yet. I think that Ubuntu or W7 are good choices.