Comment 80 for bug 930447
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| JohnWashington (ubuntu-johnwash) wrote Re: Unable to Install Ubuntu 12.04 on Pentium M x86 Laptop due to PAE kernel | #80 |
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I've just had my second encounter in a week with a Windows user trying out Ubuntu on an older laptop. This one was a Sony Vaio PCG-Z1RSP. I don't know that many folk, if I meet 2 instances in a week, how many millions are stumped by this? Workarounds, forum posts, unofficial CD images... these do NOT solve the issue for first timers. You have one shot, if that fails, they throw away the 'useless' laptop and return to the cosy world of Microsoft.
It's such a slap in the face, announcing a plan that non-pae support will be kept until 12.10, yet denying access to an official live CD that supports non-pae. How many laptops will be needlessly wasted? How many potential converts to Linux will be lost?
I don't know why I'm even writing this, anyone who has the power to change this policy has seen 79 comments and muttered TL;DR.