No. But, after spending all day trying to get Fedora installed on my laptop, I’m happy to report that it’s 95% awesome. And it’s hella faster than running off a live CD. Right now, I’m running Fedora 9, installed on my laptop, in its own partition, and it’s FAST. I chose the 64-bit install, which I’ve read perhaps doesn’t really do that much for me. But I bought this laptop a couple of years ago because it had a 64-bit processor, and dammit, I’m going to do something with it! Anyway, likely due to the fact that there’s hardly anything installed, from power on to login, it’s probably, what, 90 seconds or so? Maybe less? That’s a far sight better than my bloated XP installed. Even after I uninstalled all the bloat I could. Anyway, what a nice experience.
Are there problems? Yes. Screen resolution continues to be an issue. I get 1600×1050 on my external monitor, but I also get the same thing on my 1280×800 laptop screen, which obviously isn’t cool. If I try to turn off my lappy’s monitor, the external monitor actually shuts off. Also, Fedora thinks my external is only 19″, when it’s 20″, and it’s not like size matters, but… And I haven’t tried to deal with my external devices, like my printer, my external HD, my external DVD burner, or my webcam…
Cool things tonight, though: sound’s there; wireless mouse and keyboard work flawlessly (haven’t tried multimedia capability yet) (even scroll wheel works pretty well); bootup is super fast; GUI is already way slicker than XP; Firefox works no problem; satisfaction of knowing that I am doing something on a non-MS rig is waaaaayyyy high. But, as I’ve spent pretty much the entire day doing this, and it’s almost midnight, I’m calling it quits for the night, and will continue to play with it tomorrow. I’m looking forward to seeing if I can get OpenOffice 3.0 installed and then duplicate my table of authorities “hack” using Linux, and moving one step closer to being an open source office.
‘perfect’ is always 100%