Well, it's not as if I usually read the fine print on these things, so maybe I missed seeing "ice pack" in the list of hardware requirements for Linux Live 9, but anyway, if it isn't in the list, it ought to be.
Up until a few days ago, this laptop was a Windows machine. It used to work fine (well, kind of; what do you expect from Windows?), but then it got to the point where it was too slow for me to play not only my favorite MAME games but also browser-based Flash games. I am not by any means rich, so I said "screw it, I'm installing Linux", and that's what I did. First I started with Ubuntu. It was almost impossible to do much of anything. I couldn't even get wireless Internet to work. Then I figured, I had nothing to lose, so I started over again with Linux Live 9. At first, no real problems, hey, it even found the right drivers for my wireless Internet for me, really cool, but now I find I can't do squat with it. Even if I use the built-in program for software updates, it is very difficult to find software that actually works. Somehow I got a version of MAME running on this machine, but for some reason it wouldn't recognize the enter key. (With Ubuntu, it wouldn't recognize the up arrow or the enter key, but it recognized the down arrow and letter and number keys just fine.) So no MAME games. And even if I stick to Internet games (that's about all that works), the machine overheats after a few hours.
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There is an ice pack on my laptop.
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