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I have been thinking about changing my laptop over to a more lightweight distro recently. I am currently running Linux Mint mainly because the gf is comfortable with it. So does anyone have any other recommendations?
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I am a big fan of Arch Linux. Arch Linux is a very lightweight and flexible distribution, which makes it perfect for laptops. Take the time to configure and optimize a bit, and you get a system which is exactly as you want it to be. :) Also, don't be scared if you don't have perfect Linux knowledge, the documentation of Arch is very detailed (e.g.: Beginners' Guide). Yeah I use Arch on my desktop. I think the only problem would be is I have SiS Mirage 3 graphics on this laptop and last time I looked the drivers were not working. I might go have a look in the AUR now come to think of it.
(30 Jun '10, 15:42)
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I would highly recommend Xubuntu because it's lightweight, works great, simpler desktop environment with XFCE (versus Ubuntu's gnome and Kubuntu's KDE). As was suggested above, you could use Arch (or just plain old Gentoo), but I think going with Xubuntu would provide more of an out-of-the-box experience. |
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You might consider Linux Mint XFCE. I second the suggestion for Arch Linux. It's almost as lightweight as you can get outside of LFS. The advantage is that you can add exactly what you want and nothing else. The best part is that you will have great control and great knowledge of your system. |
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I hear Peppermint is good and developed by member(s) of the Mint-LXDE team. Personally, I like antiX-M8.5-i686 for just about anything, this year. It speeds up marginal computers of all sorts and even comes with a netbook option. If Debian is a preference, try antiX! |
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well, i'm running PuppyLinux. It seem to be doing everything for me. I tried to run other linux distros but my video card cannot support them. My video card cannot support Xorg, only Xvesa; and PuppyLinux is the only distro that gives the option to choose either Xorg or Xvesa on first run..... I don't know how to config the Xorg file for other distros', cos i'm a linux newbie. |
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I have Fedora13, Ubuntu10.04, Slack13 and windows7 running on my 18.5" acer 350GB laptop. After installing ubuntu/fedora I used the following website to add apps I like for music, videos and movies: http://blog.thesilentnumber.me/2009/09/top-things-to-do-after-installing.html NOTE: It is for apt-get install but just change the command to yum install for fedora. I use ubuntu 50%, fedora 40%, slack 9% and only use windows7 to run patches ( but I can grab files/programs from windows7 using ntfs-3g and play with them in linux so windows7 may be a plus 1% ) VIRUS PROTECTION = NONE. I just reinstall windows7 when it gets filthy - about every 3 months. |
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I am currently running a Ubuntu 9.04 on an IBM Thinkpad T41. It runs very smoothly with good performance. I had Windows on this particular machine but Ubuntu screams on it. I'm sure I could go down to even more lightweight distribution but I'm pretty happy.
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