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Purchased a very nice Acer Aspire E3 112 a week or two ago, and immediately decided to dual-boot Ubuntu. Well, what a performance! Not being a novice at installing Ubuntu on UEFI Windows 8 machines, I thought it should be…
Having got a new laptop in March last year (Lenovo U410) with UEFI, and Windows 8 (now 8.1) I am going back to Linux as my every-day operating system. Windows 8+ is very good IMHO but the revelations of Edward…
Installed the latest version of Ubuntu – 12.04 LTS. Installed Skype and discovered that my Microsoft VX1000 web cam WORKS! Both microphone and webcam. So full marks to Ubuntu for that! I now only have Windows on my machines for…
Interestingly I decided to see if my Microsoft Lifecam VX1000 would work on Ubuntu 11.10. The microphone worked fine in Sound Recorder, but the camera barely worked in Cheese ( a very grainy image) and neither the webcam nor the…
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