I just got a new PC – an Acer Aspire One. My hope is that I will be able to write blog posts on the train, so there will be a lot more posts on this site in future.
Very early first impressions of the machine: the keyboard (as I type this) is causing me a few problems – I believe it is 85% of normal size. I can touch-type, but I am making about double my normal number of errors as I type. I really don’t like the touchpad, but I don’t like any touchpads. I think I will be learning a lot of keyboard shortcuts over the next few days.
The thing runs Linpus Lite. I’m expecting to use it solely for reading, listening to music, watching video, and web browsing/blogging, and it may well be adequate for that, depending on what the media software is like. If not, I will probably install Debian on it. There’s a fairly detailed wiki page on the debian site about using this machine. Many users run Ubuntu on it, which would be another good option; the problems I had with Ubuntu were to do with running non-standard things on it, which would not be likely to be a problem with the range of activities I expect to use this for.