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Re:Microsoft aren't forcing Lenovo to block free operating s... by tracker1 on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @07:03PM (#12553043)
It's kind of sad that the less tweaked options for laptops seem to be asus and acer... neither of which are my top choice, but seem to be much better than what's coming out of HP or Lenovo in the low-mid range.
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Re:Microsoft aren't forcing Lenovo to block free operating s... by DanBC on Wednesday September 21, 2016 @07:26PM (#12553163)
The low end of ASUS includes things like the X205TA.

Here's Debian: https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Asus/X205TA

Here's Ubuntu (this is a very long thread): https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2254322

There's a video on youtube of a school tech support guy who has a bunch (149) of ASUS X200 to image the drives from a USB drive, and that involves updating the "bios" and then editing the bios settings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yectQ5MeS_Y

tl;dr: it's not fun on any of these netbooks.

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