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Re: Please tipps for Desktop ( gnome, kde, xfce, etc. ) Debian 8 jessie and some minor issues

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On 10/12/2015 8:20 AM, Peter Berlau wrote:
> Hi Sven,
>
> You are right, normally I prefer fair companies.
> That is the "main-thing" I leave apple-computers and
> go back to Debian.
> I switched in 2009 to apple, because I needed some
> music software and some easy to handle Web-Design-Tool.
> Now, after I installed Debian for my women and looked what happened
> new in Debian I found,  all software I needed except "band-in-abox"
> is available under Debian.
> That was, for me, so great i update all my computers to Debian.
> powerbook ( 2004 ) make some minor problems, all other ( iMac 2010 and
> Intel-PC ) works fine "out of the box"...
>
> Is Samsung good for Debian ( jessie, stable ) ?
>
>
After the issue I just ran into, I have a hard time recommending Samsung 
laptops to
any one.

Apparently there are several models of Samsung laptops where hitting 
'F2' to get into
the bios, then turning off UEFI leads to a situation where you can't get 
back into the
BIOS again. =-O

The support page for the model I was working on did not have an update 
for the BIOS.

Installing Windows 8 on a different hard drive and looking for the 
option there to get
into the bios didn't work either since UEFI was turned off.

Some models have a software updater that will get bios updates, but not 
for the
model I was working on.

Eventually found my way to this thread....

http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/samsung-laptops-roll-back-bios-updates.696197/

A couple times through the instructions to see how the earlier link 
works that gives you the name
you need to substitute in the later link that actually downloads the 
BIOS update.

Then was able to flash the bios and get back into [t  to turn UEFI back on.

What a PITA. :-(

Would also avoid the models of Toshiba laptops that are designed in a 
way that the keyboard can
not be easily replaced without replacing the whole palm rest.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/161849099488?ul_noapp=true&chn=ps&lpid=82

Personally I like Lenovo, lean a little toward the Thinkpads over the 
other models.

Later, Seeker

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Please tipps for Desktop ( gnome, kde, xfce, etc. ) Debian 8 jessie  and some minor issues Peter Berlau <pberlau@gmx.de> - 2015-10-10 15:40 +0200
  Re: Please tipps for Desktop ( gnome, kde, xfce, etc. ) Debian 8 jessie and some minor issues Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-10-10 17:10 +0200
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