Of those reading this thread - how many of you are currently running a machine that did not come with any kind of Linux pre-installed?
Acer aspire one zg5 ssd with linpus preinstalled. 6 years ago. Ran different flavours and now running trisquel mini (lxde) though I would like gnome3 again. I recently bought a £30 battery and life went from 15min to >6hrs.
My sister in law had one with hdd with xp, it failed, so I installed ubuntu. Worked fine until a SMART diagnosed eminent failure. Gave me the laptop I swapped keyboard (I wanted spanish) and a friend repaired the hdd with I don't what tool (problably nonfree). It is now used in our workshps with trisquel mini for arduino projects.
Acer aspiresone zg5 are available on ebay for £1. Only thing that does not work is battery. Only thing nonfree is bios according to h-node.
¿does anybody know of an holistic tool that repairs broken blocks? Free software?