I was checking the link sent by someone here and couldn't find my laptop in the supported hardware but Dell states that Ubuntu 14.04 is compatible but I want to make sure. Someone must know about these kinds of things
Have you checked out these two threads. I don’t think it would be impossible as I installed Zorin Linux on an old toshiba nb305 netbook, but I do think you’ll come across compatibility issues and hardware problems. Getting my netbook to go into standby was my biggest problem and I couldn’t get hibernation to work so it was always a cold boot and with an old atom processor; that was annoying. The Celeron chip in the 11 3000 shouldn’t be anywhere near as bad. Make an image backup of your existing partitions with macrium reflect or windows 10 backup, and then attempt an installation through a flash drive. I think Zorin Linux is a good O.S as is Ubuntu. Just not going to be an easy, straight forward installation imho, nor will everything be working 100%. There’s always going to be issues with a laptop that never had linux installed in the first place.
Mary G
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July 6th, 2020 15:00
This is a user to user forum. It would be better to ask this in the Linux forum.
https://www.dell.com/community/Linux-General/bd-p/Linux?ref=lithium_menu
Torracat5678
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July 6th, 2020 15:00
Oh thank you
Johnnythegeek
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July 6th, 2020 18:00
Here's a link to what Ubuntu has certified in PC models and indicates what version it was tested with. https://certification.ubuntu.com/
Daris Azma
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July 7th, 2020 01:00
did you get any resolution on this?
regard
Torracat5678
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I was checking the link sent by someone here and couldn't find my laptop in the supported hardware but Dell states that Ubuntu 14.04 is compatible but I want to make sure. Someone must know about these kinds of things
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July 7th, 2020 20:00
Have you checked out these two threads. I don’t think it would be impossible as I installed Zorin Linux on an old toshiba nb305 netbook, but I do think you’ll come across compatibility issues and hardware problems. Getting my netbook to go into standby was my biggest problem and I couldn’t get hibernation to work so it was always a cold boot and with an old atom processor; that was annoying. The Celeron chip in the 11 3000 shouldn’t be anywhere near as bad. Make an image backup of your existing partitions with macrium reflect or windows 10 backup, and then attempt an installation through a flash drive. I think Zorin Linux is a good O.S as is Ubuntu. Just not going to be an easy, straight forward installation imho, nor will everything be working 100%. There’s always going to be issues with a laptop that never had linux installed in the first place.
https://www.dell.com/community/Laptops-General-Read-Only/An-Ubuntu-image-for-Dell-Inspiron-3168-8773/td-p/5157604
https://www.dell.com/community/Inspiron/Inspron-11-3168-restore-OS-to-original-or-Ubuntu/m-p/7626595#M87701