Efficiency vs. Inefficiency, in a no-holds barred fight.
OK, so we did the research and installed the chosen distribution in the last part. Now we're going to fix some of the problems.
As I mentioned before, this Thinkpad R51e doesn't play nice with Linux. I tried several distributions on it, and none of them worked perfectly out of the box, leading me to believe that Lenovo had slipped some non-standard hardware in there.
Having chosen the distribution and done some research on the feasibility of the move (see Part 1.), it was time to make some space for the installation.
My hard disk was originally set up with the partitions as follows.
I've been playing with Linux for several years, but over the last year or so, its really become a viable alternative to Windows. I had a old Thinkpad R50e with Ubuntu on it, and it worked flawlessly, so this year it was clearly time to switch my main work machine from Windows XP to Linux.