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

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!

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:44:45 +0000

I agree will all of the above. Easy Peasy 1.0 works great with my new Acer Aspire One that has 1GB RAM, 8GB SSD, 8GB SDHC, 1.6GHz Atom processor. Webcam works, WPA2 works great, Evolution is good, Network Manager works, Pidgin is great! Just turn off Ubiquity off as soon as you finish install to remove the annoying auto install

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:50:48 +0000

Thanks for the fixes. For me and my Eee though Easy Peasy worked much better. I tried the Ubuntu install, it didn't go very well and was riddled with issues. It is likely just my older Eee though…

By: Mick

Mick — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 03:28:11 +0000

Installation repeat – go to preferences – sessions – uncheck ubiquity – restart
Sound -Right click on the sound icon on the task bar- recording tab – make sure the lineout sliders are completely open – slide to the top
Webcam – F2 as startup screen begins – Bios setup – Advanced – onboard devices conf – enable onboard camera.
WiFi – System – preferences-network conf – although my 901 found my network, all I needed was the WPA password
I have installed Easy Peasy twice and after much searching for these fixes it seems to working fine. I went back to Xandros once but it really does not compete with Ubuntu . Hope this helps,
Regards
Mick

By: My Dark Linux Confession : Inelegant Solutions

My Dark Linux Confession : Inelegant Solutions — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:18:50 +0000

[...] issue, in cases where Linux is built around a specific computer, it does seem to work very well. Take my review of Easy Peasy. Though others on different versions of the Eee have had some serious problems, as indicated by the [...]

By: Jonathan Bailey

Jonathan Bailey — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:22:31 +0000

That is interesting. I guess I should feel lucky that I have one of the better-supported models. No issues as of right now with wifi, it works better than with the default install, and Skype seems to work fine.

I'll be sure to keep this in mind, thank you.