Whats your favorite distro for use with Laptops?

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS with Google Chrome works great for me!

I like fedora. most of my personal use machines (personally owned and business) both laptops and workstations have all been at least dual boot between windows and Fedora.

Slackware, and not only for laptops :P

My favs for laptops are Slackware Linux and Sorcerer Linux.

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.

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.

I put Slackware on all my laptops. I haven't had any problems, get access to all features, and it's easy to keep up to date with slackpkg.

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.

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!

I've been running Fedora on my laptops for a couple of years now and it works great.