fragility

Like I said in my previous post, I bought a new laptop. And no, it’s not one of those fruit laptops. It’s a white Sony Vaio :p

Of course I installed Ubuntu on it right away, and I actually thought most things would work out of the box here, according to someone on Ubuntu Forums, but looks like the guy was wrong.

Wifi worked out of the box. But sound and suspend/hibernate didn’t. I already solved those two issues (installing a more recent kernel) but lost the wifi configuration in the way and I have lots of work to do today so I won’t be fiddling with that until tomorrow. I’m compiling a list of all the issues and how to solve them and will post them later on a Ubuntu Forums thread related to this model (which I’ll link to later).

A post on why I chose this laptop and not a Macbook (which was in fact my other option) will come later.