[Novalug] favorite new laptops?

[Mark Smith]

just works?  get a mac.  hahaha.

otherwise, i've had pretty good luck with ubunto.

On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 11:29:04PM -0400, Julia Christianson wrote:
> Has anyone bought a laptop lately that "just works"?  I need to buy
> something to send to my sister in Oklahoma ... she's never run Linux
> for any period of time, but she knows she doesn't want Windows ;-).
> I'll probably put CentOS on it even though I know ubuntu would
> probably be better because (a) I'll be her sole support and I don't
> know ubuntu and (b) I know CentOS will be supported for some
> reasonable period of time.
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions.  Oh, and price is of course always a
> factor but not the primary consideration.  (Resistance to failure and
> an old-folks-readable screen are the primary considerations, with wifi
> that won't break when a new kernel is installed coming in a close third.)
> 
> -- Julia
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