Nibble has an XP SSD version of the Acer, and I take it back, ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
klo_the_hobbit, he is finding it very, very slow to do anything. It's not outside the 28 day return period so I'm going to have to go through the warranty process. But he's been having a play with Ubuntu and thinks he can deal with it (as all he really wants to do with it is go on the web when he's out and about, and we have other machines if he needs windows), but my question is, can I install Ubuntu onto an SSD card that plugs into the slot and have the option to boot from that? I don't want to write Windows over entirely and I'm not convinced that there's enough room on the SSD card internally for both. (I have a USB bootable stick but can't save changes to it, so if we updated anything or installed VLC etc, it won't save the changes, so I'd like it 'installed' somewhere and a permanent SSD expansion in one of the external slots might be the best option if we can do it.)
klo_the_hobbit, he is finding it very, very slow to do anything. It's not outside the 28 day return period so I'm going to have to go through the warranty process. But he's been having a play with Ubuntu and thinks he can deal with it (as all he really wants to do with it is go on the web when he's out and about, and we have other machines if he needs windows), but my question is, can I install Ubuntu onto an SSD card that plugs into the slot and have the option to boot from that? I don't want to write Windows over entirely and I'm not convinced that there's enough room on the SSD card internally for both. (I have a USB bootable stick but can't save changes to it, so if we updated anything or installed VLC etc, it won't save the changes, so I'd like it 'installed' somewhere and a permanent SSD expansion in one of the external slots might be the best option if we can do it.)