Nerd Overload - 4 months later
In July, I removed the wonky, shonky OS from my Acer Aspire and installed the sexy new Chrome based Jolicloud instead. I said then that it was ‘awesome’, but that was my 2 hour old first impression. It soon became apparent that a lot of things didn’t quite work as they should; flash playing was jerky, video was clunky, connections were hit-and-miss.
Luckily though, Jolicloud are still beavering away with updates to most of these issues, and despite a short time of flash simply not working at all, most of the above issues have been resolved.
4 months ago my Aspire was ready for the bin, I never used it, the installed OS was dire. Having replaced with Jolicloud I was halfway there, but these updates have sealed the deal. I can now watch movies on the screen from USB (a simple terminal fix has allowed me to use 4GB sticks) and I can watch football through it on the big TV as Sopcast works (kind of, you have to stream the, er, stream through VLC as Sopcast shows no picture) now.
As I type this, I have BBC Iplayer streaming Radio 1 into my ears, and have A USB stick full of films to watch should the mood take me. It’s brilliant.
I seriously recommend this OS for the Acer, anyone that has’t tried it yet really should. As I said 4 months ago, it’s not the usual tech-nerd-fest that OS installs can often be, and the improvement is dramatic.
Hopefully, one or two of the remaining things can be sorted out, but these could be due to running Windows software on this OS (Spotify is a bit up and down, and a memory hog) but it still does the vast majority of the things you really need.
