Well That Was Easy Peasy

About a year ago, I got the tiny Asus Eee PC, pre-loaded with a Linux operating system, Xandros. While the OS wasn’t too bad in of itself, it had a ton of junk in it that I couldn’t uninstall (like a goofy Chinese dictionary, and a Mr. Potato Head Paint program). The OS gobbled up all hard drive space except for a meager 200 MB.

I have tried an Ubuntu OS a few months ago, but couldn’t get the thing to connect to wireless, so I went back to the original Xandros. It was shortly after that I heard of a new Ubuntu OS made specifically for netbooks, called Easy Peasy.

IT’S GREAT!!! We love it! It was a breeze to install, a breeze to use. It really is Easy Peasy. There were some excellent instructions here, and the Easy Peasy Wiki was helpful, too. The only issue I ran into was installing the OS onto the netbook– you can run it from a USB drive, which is very cool. But I wanted to install it onto the netbook. It was easy enough (guess that’s why they call it Easy Peasy, huh?), but I wasn’t expecting it to run off the USB first.

I think it’s a good, speedy alternative to Windows for any netbook. There’s been a massive influx of alternative Windows-less programs (such as Firefox, Open Office, etc) and Easy Peasy works with them all. Very nice. Thumbs up from Mrs. M!

P.S. Easy Peasy is free, by the way.