Aspire one D255-1345 rejects linux on all counts.

Specs (Yes I'm lazy): http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/acer-as ... 33177.html

So just a little while ago I got sick of win7 starter's sluggishness and inability to successfully display my java eclipse output and decided to switch to linux.

I'm using LiLi USB Creator to make my live USBs.

First I tried out arch linux which was going absolutely fantastic until I realized that I needed to use a custom kernel to get my wireless working, and without my wireless working (and no idea how to properly mount any sort of external drive in linux) there was no way I'd be able to install the kernel.

So I gave up and decided to try Ubuntu. I created the live usb just fine and tried to boot from it. It went past the bios screen and to the blinking command line underscore, which stopped blinking for a moment. At that point a line of text popped up highlighted in purple and then green for a split second (it could have been green and then purple). After the text, the netbook hung displaying a command line underscore that blinked.

I left it for several hours and it did nothing.

Then I tried puppy linux, which froze on the previous text (which did not look anything like an error message, but I don't remember what it said).

Then I tried Fedora(edited from debian, which I have not tried), which behaved the same as Ubuntu.

I don't know what to try anymore... if this all fails I'll probably go install either XP or OSX (Probably XP, I can't stand safari).

 

I got through this using Wubi from Ubuntu. Now I got my Kubuntu running with KDE Plasma shell for netbooks