I just finished downloading Feisty, and before I install it I guess I need to bitch about how hard it is to get all features working under Linux.

First of all, the graphics card (Geforce Go 6150 UMA) only works in 16-bit colour with no Direct Rendering with the open-source drivers, and obtaining drivers with no net connection (as I will explain, the wireless does not work) under Linux is quite difficult

Next, the integrated nVidia sound adapter is a bit useless, it kind of works most of the time, but the microphone,
headphone socket and wine do not work at all.

Now, the worst problem, the wireless adapter (Broadcom 4311) does not work natively under Linux. However, ndiswrapper does not work either, as there is some sort of IRQ conflict between the ndiswrapper-ed drivers and the nVidia proprietary binary drivers.

Finally, my GRUB spontaneously somehow ended up pointing to the wrong partitions on my hard disk and no manual,
editing of the config files would get it working again.

I sincerely hope that most, if not all these issues are resolved in Feisty. I’ll install it when I have time this week.

And the line breaks in this are also borked