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Morning,
My good mate has an HP Pavilion dv5-1000ea laptop. Bought from John Lewis it came originally with Vista and tbh has been nothing but trouble since they got it. It's more them than the equipment though. Him and his missus are proper Luddites (well he is a chippy :lol: ), his missus is worse. So trusting that if a window pops up offering to "speed up your pc / double your investment / so and so needs to update your credit card details" then she'll click it. She's gotten better but.......
Anyway, I got the call that it had once again died and they were looking to buy a new one. This was shortly after her grandson had had a crack at curing it with the "backup discs". I gently explained there comes a time with Windoze when it really needs wiping and starting again.
A Live USB confirmed that hardware wise all was well and I convinced him that it really was time to try Linux.
I've now put Zorin OS 9.1 64-bit on it which is based on Ubuntu 14.04. (As an aside, I personally think that in making the Ubuntu base look like Windows the Zorin OS loses "something". All my Zorin installs are more buggy than any of the pure Ubuntu ones). It's actually so like Windows 7 / XP that when I go back to Ubuntu I have to reorientate myself a bit.
Is there anything can be done, short of an SSD, to speed up the boot time? The "Z", Zorin logo seems to hang there for ages before it gets to the desktop.
Sure I've read somewhere you can bypass this?
Cheers
My good mate has an HP Pavilion dv5-1000ea laptop. Bought from John Lewis it came originally with Vista and tbh has been nothing but trouble since they got it. It's more them than the equipment though. Him and his missus are proper Luddites (well he is a chippy :lol: ), his missus is worse. So trusting that if a window pops up offering to "speed up your pc / double your investment / so and so needs to update your credit card details" then she'll click it. She's gotten better but.......
Anyway, I got the call that it had once again died and they were looking to buy a new one. This was shortly after her grandson had had a crack at curing it with the "backup discs". I gently explained there comes a time with Windoze when it really needs wiping and starting again.
A Live USB confirmed that hardware wise all was well and I convinced him that it really was time to try Linux.
I've now put Zorin OS 9.1 64-bit on it which is based on Ubuntu 14.04. (As an aside, I personally think that in making the Ubuntu base look like Windows the Zorin OS loses "something". All my Zorin installs are more buggy than any of the pure Ubuntu ones). It's actually so like Windows 7 / XP that when I go back to Ubuntu I have to reorientate myself a bit.
Is there anything can be done, short of an SSD, to speed up the boot time? The "Z", Zorin logo seems to hang there for ages before it gets to the desktop.
Sure I've read somewhere you can bypass this?
Cheers
