Comments on: Nine Reasons Every Eee PC User Should Get Easy Peasy

By: GaryAber

GaryAber — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 03:34:00 +0000

When I try your link in the sixth paragraph to Get Easy Peasy, I get a “warning page” that this is not a place I should be going. The page itself does not reference Avast or even WOT, but it is enough for me to abandon any idea of going to the home site let alone trying the OS on my netbook (with the factory installed Win 7 Starter). I guess I’ll stick with Natty. Maybe it’s just me. . . .

By: Patrick Ellis

Patrick Ellis — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 21:42:00 +0000

I’ve only had my netbook for about 3 months, and EasyPeasy has been exactly what I’ve been looking for on my single-core Atom N455-equipped Acer Aspire One D255E. I’ve tried all the usual suspects for netbooks: JoliOS, MeeGo, Ubuntu Netbook Remix, as well as standard distros including Ubuntu 11.04, Linux Mint, Fedora, etc. Some worked better than others, and some were absolutely horrible experiences, so I was still trying to find the sweet-spot. To be honest, I avoided using EasyPeasy for a while simply because of the admittedly lame name, but decided to finally give it a shot. I’m very glad I did! The UI is great for my netbook, it runs fast, all my hardware is supported (minus some mic issues which has been consistent across all Linux distros), and I can still customize the system as I would with an official Ubuntu distro. While this netbook shipped with Windows 7 Starter, I’ve actually got it dual-booting EasyPeasy and Windows XP and this seems like the best way to run the system. FYI, I do prefer Linux, but I’m only using Windows for legacy software support (unfortunately). Cheers!

By: Alan

Alan — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 15:52:00 +0000

I agree 100% with this review, I have been running EasyPeasy on my Samsung netbook for over 6 months now and it’s great! It’s GUI is simple to use, quick, no worrying about getting infected and as much free excellent open source software as I want. Love it!

By: Leif Bjorklund

Leif Bjorklund — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 03:22:00 +0000

Great and works perfect for me except how can I
use SD or USB to free more storage for the OS I can not update
not enough memory limit 4Gb

By: houseman

houseman — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:37:00 +0000

I’ve just ‘saved’ my 4G with Easy Peasy. I was having all sorts of problems with the keyboard. The CTRL key had never worked, but after about 12-18 months it it started to produce chinese characters. I worked my way round that and decided to put a start menu on, following various website tips. That was OK but then I found individual keys would start to initiate commands – e.g. every time I pressed ‘O’ a file open menu appeared, and so on.

I tried other distributions, first Mint, off a USB key – not bad (I have it on my desktop and it’s brilliant) but I felt it was just too big for the eee. So then I went for it and installed EasyPeasy. Sad to say I had loads of difficulty, but always with the key board.

I was on the point of giving up but decided that if EasyPeasy was having the same problems as eee’s original Xandos then there must be a hardware fault. I was on the point of buying a new keyboard but thought why not just see if it needs cleaning first.

So I opened it up, dusted it down – there was a bit of unlikely stuff in there – and put it back together again. This time the EasyPeasy loaded up more easily but I was still getting a lot of difficulty with some keys on the password and keyring input screens.

So I decided to reinstall it .. and it got better but there were still some screens showing this weird behaviour.

I then read this could be got rid of by hard resetting by removing the battery. So I removed the battery, then I went out for a walk!

On my return I put the battery back in, also connected up the power supply and switched on.

And it worked, no problems (well, apart from the ones of my making, which I discovered eventually) and I now have a quite zippy, fully featured netbook with a wide range of software. Great.

I have just one quibble (there has to be): most of the applications fill the whole screen but the top bar sits behind the status bar of the operating system, so that the off/minimise/maximise buttons (which I find to my surprise I actually like being on the left) are hidden and you have to close either by right clicking or by Alt-dragging the screen down below the status bar.

There’s probably a neater way round that too. I really like th OS and I’m delighted to have my eee back and even more functional than when I first had it.

Sorry about the length of the post but it’s been a very positive (and money-saving) experience for me!

By: mark

mark — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:25:08 +0000

this is rubbish

on 900a the wireless does not work properly nor does the function keys, and the microphone has issues

if by "unecessary features" you mean wireless access and sound

By: mark

mark — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:25:08 +0000

this is rubbish

on 900a the wireless does not work properly nor does the function keys, and the microphone has issues

if by "unecessary features" you mean wireless access and sound

By: NA

NA — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:11:55 +0000

I bought my EEE PC900 with Windows XP installed and I hated it. My Wifi connection would cut out every couple of minutes and everything was slow in general. I decided to download a Linux distro right after buying it cuz I've always had good experiences with Linux. I chose Easy Peasy kinda on a whim and I'm glad I did! It seems to have sped up everything and my wifi stays connected whenever I need. It seems to me that Easy Peasy was made to work with the EEEPC's hardware a lot better than XP.

By: NA

NA — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:11:55 +0000

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:50:04 +0000

Glad it's worked well for you!