Re: Linux on a Laptop shipped with Windows 11 in S-mode
Hans wrote:
> I discovered some small laptops (10 inch and 7 inch), with an Intel N100
> processor, up to 16 GB RAM and ump to 1 TB disk. But shipped with windows.
>
> 2 questions:
>
> 1. Does one have any experience, if the N100 cpu is usable for fluently work?
> These processors are also built in small mini computers.
I have an N100 mini running firewall duties. It is more than
adequate for that.
> 2., Can debian installed on these laptops or are theire BIOSes mostly dongled
> like on Microsoft Surface tablets and have to be cracked?
I don't know about the laptops; I found it very easy to install Debian stable.
> However, the question is: Will the N100 be fast enough for fluently working
> with it? (My comparision is a Fujitsu Lifebook with 8GB and an I5 cpu).
I have a very old mini -- 11 years old -- running an i3-3227U,
which is strictly inferior to an N100 in every benchmark and
technology.
It works just fine as a Debian desktop running X, XFCE,
LibreOffice and Firefox. Having enough RAM and an SSD goes a
long way towards usability.
-dsr-
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