Linux On My Samsung

Dear Andy, I am running Linux on a Samsung NP300E5C. It runs fine, apart from the battery problem I mentioned in an earlier post today. With the samsung-tools loaded you have most of the functionality available with the Fn key. Also, I have an Nvidia Optimus card, which needed a bit of fiddling to g...

I recently bought a new battery for my NP300 laptop but, after 4 months, it's dead and won't charge any more. Ok, it could be a bad battery but, by coincidence, the old (OEM) one went the same way only a few months after I installed 14.04 (around April 2015 - I was a bit slow getting round to the up...