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Best laptop Linux distro?

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notetcetera

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So, I've been using PinguyOS 11.04, but after a number of bugs I was considering switching back to Win7(I made a thread in OS's). The thing is, I don't want to use Windows7 if I don't have to(Plus I don't have a portable HDD to backup my files to, so I'm stuck with an ext4 /home partition), so I'm curious to know which distros are the most stable/highly recommended?
 
most stable? You could run vanilla debian and install your own GUI packages

#! and most of the other lightweight distros are either based on testing or a little bit funky when dist upgrades come along.

Xubuntu is probably easiest. Mint's not bad I guess.
 
Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) is a good choice. The Live DVD images come in either Gnome or Xfce. I use the Xfce edition because I like Xfce, and Gnome 3 is a steaming dog pile.

Like regular Mint, codecs are installed by default. It might not be as easy to use as regular Mint, but it uses a lot less memory than regular Mint, or *Ubuntu.

I also recently tried OpenSuse 12.1. I really liked it initially, but from my experience, it seems to suffer from terrible wireless performance. And that's from 3 different wireless adapters. So I would skip that one.
 
InternationalHat said:
most stable? You could run vanilla debian and install your own GUI packages

#! and most of the other lightweight distros are either based on testing or a little bit funky when dist upgrades come along.

Xubuntu is probably easiest. Mint's not bad I guess.
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I actually saw a review for Xubuntu and have been considering it.

ripken204 said:
Mint 12 is running great on my laptop
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Have you found any quirks? I heard it's buggy, as well as the PinguyOS varient(which is only going to be released as beta for this reason)

darksonic said:
I use Ubuntu 11.04 on my Cr-48. Runs fine.
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Cr-48?
I tried 11.04 before and found it very underwhelming. Is it better now?

Ion Silverbolt said:
Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) is a good choice. The Live DVD images come in either Gnome or Xfce. I use the Xfce edition because I like Xfce, and Gnome 3 is a steaming dog pile.

Like regular Mint, codecs are installed by default. It might not be as easy to use as regular Mint, but it uses a lot less memory than regular Mint, or *Ubuntu.

I also recently tried OpenSuse 12.1. I really liked it initially, but from my experience, it seems to suffer from terrible wireless performance. And that's from 3 different wireless adapters. So I would skip that one.
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IDK how I feel about using a straight up Debian distro as I've heard they're likely to break with updates
I was looking into OpenSuse 12.1 as well, but I'm having a hard time deciding which distro is best for me...




Also, thanks for the input, fellas, it's Much appreciated !
 
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notetcetera said:
Have you found any quirks? I heard it's buggy, as well as the PinguyOS varient(which is only going to be released as beta for this reason)
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the only "bugs" are on my desktop, but you can blame ATI for that
my laptop has been running great though, I've been using my laptop at work as well, so i'm on it a good 8+ hours a day for the last week without any issues.
 
ripken204 said:
the only "bugs" are on my desktop, but you can blame ATI for that
my laptop has been running great though, I've been using my laptop at work as well, so i'm on it a good 8+ hours a day for the last week without any issues.
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That's awesome, dude ! I'm gonna install that today.

An aside: Nevermind, got it back! i'm seriously considering dual-booting Win7 and LMint12, but I'd like to keep my files independent of either OS, but still accessible by both. Is anyone aware of a way to go about doing this?
 
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notetcetera said:
That's awesome, dude ! I'm gonna install that today.

An aside: So I lost my entire /home partition(it was encrypted and I changed OS last night to Linux Mint 11 cause I was having a lotta issues) and i'm seriously considering dual-booting Win7 and LMint12, but I'd like to keep my files independent of either OS, but still accessible by both. Is anyone aware of a way to go about doing this?
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You can always keep them on a FAT32 partition if they're less than 4GB. Otherwise, you can get an ExtFS driver for Windows or an NTFS driver for Linux. Some distros come with NTFS support already enabled, but I don't use Mint so I have no idea if it's available out-of-the-box.
 
jojo69 said:
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I can't even find this !

On another note, I installed Linux Mint 12 and it's fucking good. Very stable so far, and feature packed! One problem I'm having though, is using any "lock" keys, i.e. Caps Lock, Num Lock. I get this when pressing one of those keys:
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