Well, I regret to report that Ubuntu Netbook Remix isn’t quite perfect on the Acer Aspire One: the on-board microphone won’t work (at least on mine). It’s basically a driver issue, and I’ve researched a ton of ideas of how to fix it, but nothing seems to do the trick – and a couple of the ideas messed things up so badly I had to reinstall the OS.

I’m sure there are some smart folks out there who could probably get it to work, but I’m not one of them, and I’m basically tired of messing around with it. That’s the reason I wanted to try out Linux to begin with: because I was tired of messing around with Windoze all the time!

Now, is this a killer problem? Not necessarily. If you don’t need the built-in microphone – if you don’t use Skype, for example – it won’t matter at all. For me it was a bit annoying because we wanted to have a Skype video chat with someone at our September KindleBoards meetup in the D.C. area: we could see them and hear them, and they could see us – but couldn’t hear us.

Anyway, just beware that this could be an issue if you have an Aspire One and want to run Ubuntu Netbook Remix.

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