Edge E420 Only Linux Mint 11

[DublinJoe]

Greetings fellow E420 users. Mine was $530 at Office Depot on Jan. 12. It's the i5-2410M, 500 GB @ 7200, 4 GB (now 8) model.

The first thing I did was replace Windows with Linux Mint 11 and I'm loving it. The fingerprint scanner isn't supported but I never wanted that anyway.

Today I ordered a 32 GB mSATA SSD for $50 in lieu of the whole optical drive bay caddy plus SSD plus moving the HDD option and I'm excited.

Are there any of you out there who've replaced Windows with Linux on this machine?

Well, are there any of you who'd like to know about Linux Mint on this machine?

[slender]

I would love to hear more about your experiences, especially about how things like fine grained power controls work under linux.

Also I am interested in whether you have considered running Windows in a virtual machine, perhaps even the original Windows installation.

I want to run linux(ubuntu or mint), but also need windows for a variety of work purposes, hence my desire to run Windows in a VMware machine on top of Linux . Therefore, I was thinking of using the VMware Converter to create a image of the base machine, then running that on top of linux.