hdparm -I device, with device being the drive (was/dev/sda on my system), will do the trick for us linux users. Mine came back with AAC, looks like I'm in the clear.
I'm picturing the same Far Side cartoon. Only this time, the lemmings herd rushing down the beach are all Windows users...no thought about whether this is truly a OS worth our time, just take what they feed you and run towards the sea. The one smartass wearing an inner tube is a Linux user...he's still going into the same sea, but at least he's thought for himself and is using something that guarantee's a bit more survival time.
The iPod service constantly running and Quicktime plugin taking precedence are things that I expect to happen when I'm using Windows. Everyone one thinks their software needs to run at startup and that their app is the default. Why is this surprising? As for the "look and feel," it's by no means broken, just not matching the rest of your fisher price system.
"Also I've never heard of any issues with laptops or desktops"
Then you've never looked very hard.
I own a Dell laptop and can say that the overall experience under Linux isn't the same as Windows because of Dell. Dell has custom tweaks in the ATI driver that provides better performance (aside from that fact that Linux ATI drivers suck) as well as adjustments for the LCD that I can't change in Linux. Don't even get me started on my Dell wifi card which is based on a broadcom chipset. Since 2.6.17, I have had native kernel support, but there are still some APs that I can't connect to, for example APs that use shared WEP keys.
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hdparm -I device, with device being the drive (was /dev/sda on my system), will do the trick for us linux users. Mine came back with AAC, looks like I'm in the clear.
I'm picturing the same Far Side cartoon. Only this time, the lemmings herd rushing down the beach are all Windows users...no thought about whether this is truly a OS worth our time, just take what they feed you and run towards the sea. The one smartass wearing an inner tube is a Linux user...he's still going into the same sea, but at least he's thought for himself and is using something that guarantee's a bit more survival time.
The iPod service constantly running and Quicktime plugin taking precedence are things that I expect to happen when I'm using Windows. Everyone one thinks their software needs to run at startup and that their app is the default. Why is this surprising? As for the "look and feel," it's by no means broken, just not matching the rest of your fisher price system.
Yes that's what I would do if I was buying again, but I bought this laptop before I was a full time Linux user.
"Also I've never heard of any issues with laptops or desktops" Then you've never looked very hard. I own a Dell laptop and can say that the overall experience under Linux isn't the same as Windows because of Dell. Dell has custom tweaks in the ATI driver that provides better performance (aside from that fact that Linux ATI drivers suck) as well as adjustments for the LCD that I can't change in Linux. Don't even get me started on my Dell wifi card which is based on a broadcom chipset. Since 2.6.17, I have had native kernel support, but there are still some APs that I can't connect to, for example APs that use shared WEP keys.