Last week I installed Ubuntu Linux onto my 12 year old nephew's laptop. He'd pestered me to do it for a while and this time when he came to visit he brought his laptop with him so I could get it working in ways that Windows never could. He wanted his laptop to work faster than it was with Windows and for all its hardware to work. Previously, we had to re-install Windows after it had become sluggish through software installation, removal, re-installation... As usual, Windows failed to install some of his laptop's hardware. Most importantly to my nephew, Windows failed to install his sound … [Read more...]