Easy Peasy on Acer Aspire one

My cute and shiny little brown Acer Aspire One arrived today and very cute and shiny it is too. Did I mention it was brown? I’m writing on it right now dontcha know.

Being a twitchy geek I was switching Linux distros as soon as it came out of the box. It comes with the perfectly reasonable Linpus on it, which derives from Fedora 8. I switched to Easy Peasy though which is based on Ubuntu and has Debian packagey niceness all over it. You can find it here

It installed off a USB stick and after a moment of mild panic triggered by not being able to see any wireless networks (a reboot seemed to sort this out) everything was peachy.

One annoying thing (which is mostly the reason for this post) is that on reboot, the installer tries to do it’s thing again. This is to do with the Ubiquity installer being left in the session start up. To stop this go to System >> Preferences >> Sessions and uncheck Ubiquity in the start up programs list.

Whilst you’re there, if you want a more classical looking desktop, uncheck Maximus and Netbook Launcher.

But only if you want to you understand.