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I mainly post on my blog at https://ar.al  (RSS: https://ar.al/index.xml ) and interact on my Mastodon https://mastodon.ar.al . Please follow me there.

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    Aral Balkan‏ @aral 2 Jul 2013

    Just preordered a maxed out Galago UltraPro from System76. Want to test a pre-installed/optimised Ubuntu experience. https://www.system76.com/laptops/model/galu1 …

    8:38 AM - 2 Jul 2013
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      2. Nicolas Alpi  🍪‏ @spyou 2 Jul 2013
        Replying to @aral

        @aral Just curious but what prompted that move?

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 2 Jul 2013
        Replying to @spyou

        @spyou Part of my initial research for Codename Prometheus (http://aralbalkan.com/notes/codename-prometheus/ …) :) +@i_am_prometheus

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      4. Nicolas Alpi  🍪‏ @spyou 2 Jul 2013
        Replying to @aral

        @aral Fair enough. Nice writing. I've been a long time Ubuntu user, let me know if you need any help.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      5. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 2 Jul 2013
        Replying to @spyou

        @spyou Thanks, Nicolas, I will do :)

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      6. Nicolas Alpi  🍪‏ @spyou 2 Jul 2013
        Replying to @aral

        @aral No worries, Did you have a look to http://elementaryos.org/  (youtube it). It looks quite promising as well.

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      2. Tim Caswell‏ @creationix 2 Jul 2013
        Replying to @aral

        @aral Good luck. I had a bad experience with one of those in the past (years ago). Hopefully it's better now.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 2 Jul 2013
        Replying to @creationix

        @creationix Thanks, Tim :)

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      2. Vince Wadhwani‏ @vwadhwani 19 Aug 2013
        Replying to @aral

        @aral Did your system arrive? What do you think?

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 20 Aug 2013
        Replying to @vwadhwani

        @vwadhwani Cancelled it; decided I didn't need to test it after all.

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      2. Cesare Rocchi‏ @_funkyboy 2 Jul 2013
        Replying to @aral

        @aral isn't the same Ubuntu you can download from http://Ubuntu.com ?

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 2 Jul 2013
        Replying to @_funkyboy

        @_funkyboy Not sure if they optimise the OS but they provide a complete solution (eg., keyboard has Ubuntu key, etc.)

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      2. Vince.‏ @spider2097 2 Jul 2013
        Replying to @aral

        @aral Personally, I'd wait for the MintBox 2. Sounds like a console, actually a mini-PC. http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/news/mintbox-2-announced-four-times-faster-than-original …

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 2 Jul 2013
        Replying to @spider2097

        @spider2097 Came across that today; I think it’ll be easier to force myself to use a laptop :)

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      4. Vince.‏ @spider2097 2 Jul 2013
        Replying to @aral

        @aral Well, I do see that it's a bit like comparing apples & oranges! (Wow, the colours sort of match up too!)

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      2. Jan Verhulst‏ @jantjeman 2 Jul 2013
        Replying to @aral

        @aral Damn, that thing is ugly :)

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      3. Aral Balkan‏ @aral 2 Jul 2013
        Replying to @jantjeman

        @jantjeman I can’t disagree :) Was going to try the Dell XPS 13 Dev Ed but Dell pissed me right off with their pre-sales incompetence.

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      4. Jan Verhulst‏ @jantjeman 2 Jul 2013
        Replying to @aral

        @aral yeah, I read about it… sounded truly horrifying!

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      1. Vince Wadhwani‏ @vwadhwani 9 Jul 2013
        Replying to @aral

        @aral Thinking about doing the same thing. You concerned about battery life at all?

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