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I have buy new hp laptop 15-ac 122tu product : N8M18P#ACJ . I had install window 7 32bit but faced many driver issue. Now I wanna to know which linux or other OS are compaitable with this modal which contain all driver and required software. Please Tell me OS version also instruction regarding installlation.

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It came with FreeDOS, obviously. 32 bit Windows was not a good choice due to driver unavailability and you have hardware that should be running a 64 bit OS. There is no operating system that is going to "just work" without any required drivers and configuration. Windows 7 64 bit and higher can be made to work with downloads from this site and there are so many Linux distributions it is impossible to discuss them all and how to install them. I personally use Kubuntu and they just introduced 16.04 (Xenial) Long Term Support which would likely install with very little post-install configuration needed:

 

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/16.04/release/kubuntu-16.04-desktop-amd64.iso

 

This says AMD64 but it is also for Intel 64 bit capable processors which yours is. Download it and use a burning program to author the .iso onto a finished DVD-ROM installation disk and boot from it. Follow the onscreen prompts. If you are installing only Kubuntu the default options will work fine. 

 

Let us know if you need more help. Your question calls for an essay answer the length of a novel so let's take this a step at a time. 

 

 

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It came with FreeDOS, obviously. 32 bit Windows was not a good choice due to driver unavailability and you have hardware that should be running a 64 bit OS. There is no operating system that is going to "just work" without any required drivers and configuration. Windows 7 64 bit and higher can be made to work with downloads from this site and there are so many Linux distributions it is impossible to discuss them all and how to install them. I personally use Kubuntu and they just introduced 16.04 (Xenial) Long Term Support which would likely install with very little post-install configuration needed:

 

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/16.04/release/kubuntu-16.04-desktop-amd64.iso

 

This says AMD64 but it is also for Intel 64 bit capable processors which yours is. Download it and use a burning program to author the .iso onto a finished DVD-ROM installation disk and boot from it. Follow the onscreen prompts. If you are installing only Kubuntu the default options will work fine. 

 

Let us know if you need more help. Your question calls for an essay answer the length of a novel so let's take this a step at a time. 

 

 

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