Last year, I used Ubuntu on my old Toshiba Satellite A10 laptop because, being an IT student, I was keen on toying with open-source/alternative software.
I was introduced to open-source movement during my 2nd year studying Operating Systems. At that time, Red Hat Linux “Shrike” was used for the lesson. And I was absolutely intrigued by the robustness of the filesystem, and how it could handle as an alternative OS, for free. Just for bragging rights, I made my computer run on Red Hat, download a Lord of The Rings wallpaper (I was inherently obsessed with the movie trilogy at that time) and personalize bits here and there, to prove to my peers that it’s possible to run Linux for personal uses. Of course, I was beaten down when they asked about games. So, come to present day. I had already graduated. I still had my old laptop, which was broken because of hard disk problems. I was contemplating on fixing it, but since it’s now coming to its fifth year of existence, I figured, what the heck. I might as well trade it for a low-end, but still-useful, laptop. Now, I had owned an Acer T180 (yes, I heard, people, Acer products are just not “up there”~!), and I was thinking of making a dual-boot system. Then I realized how I broke my old laptop. I was beginning to suspect that the reason why my Satellite A10 no longer function as per normal, was due to something in the hard disk that made it failed. I had to admit that I initiated a forced shutdown 1 too many times, so probably that last forced shutdown was the key to its failure. But it could be that since I had experimented my laptop with other distros, it has come to a point that after many times of trial and error (which is sometimes accompanied by a forced shutdown), my laptop failed. Another thing to note: my laptop’s DVD drive also decided to die on me. So now, I have an unworking laptop that refused to load, because my hard disk failed, and my DVD drive will not respond to any Linux DVDs I inserted into. So now, as I contemplate, I wished there was some advice to go on.
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