<div>Personal opinion, but I find doing a distro tour every few years teaches me a few new things about myself each time. I did one when I first started linux and I loved KDE and Mint. I used debian pure for my server environment as they suited my needs and wants at the time. Tastes change. Distros go in different directions than people's wants. Personally like to hop to whatever strikes my fancy, and I fully expect that in another 8 years I'm going to have very different needs than I do now. I may be to the point that I don't want anything on my computer that I didn't run a make command on myself. I may be building from scratch. I may not have the time to mess around so I may be looking for a "just works" distrobution, maybe hardware will be a constraint. Who knows. But from a personal point of view I feel that it's great to have preferences, but always be ready to go to greener pastures, plus it never hurts to be able to jump ship into an office environment and be able to say I'm comfortable with Linux as a whole, and not I'm comfortable with RedHat or Debian or Arch. Nomatter how much you know you kind of look silly the first time you go to install a package and you don't know that the package manager in RedHat is yum and not apt.</div>
<div> </div><div>Just my two advocating doing a distro tour even if you are familiar/preferential to a distro. You can always do something where you try one of each of the "cores" something Debian, something RedHat, something Slackware, something Ubuntu, and the like, then branch off with flavors of something you like, for example Ubuntu vs. Mint vs. Bhodi and all the other flavors of our favorites. I really feel that it enhances the base knowledge of the user just knowing the bredth of everything out there. You have to figure if there is a distro, and it's being maintained by someone and has a user base, there has to be a reason those people are using it. Nobody chooses a distro because it's a flaming pile of crap.</div>
<div> </div><div>Will</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Marcelo Cavalcante <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kalibslack-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org" target="_blank">kalibslack-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I think the big question here should be:<br><br>Which distro do you use and feel confortable with?<br><br>I think that's the point you should look for.<br>
<br>If you're used to OpenSuse and know how stuff works in this distro, and you listen (or read o.O) to me when I say "You should use Arch Linux on your HP machine, it rocks!", perhaps you'll just find a lot of problems like: What is this file doing here? How can I start this service? Why is it asking me to identify this daemon? etc..<br>
<br>Perhaps, in this case, Arch won't be the best distro for YOUR HP machine, because it will just give you problems to solve (and makes you waste your time). But (just for joke) if you send me this machine as a christmas gift, I would say that Arch is the best distro for this machine, because now it's not about YOUR HP machine, but about MY HP machine.<br>
<br>BUT (a huge "but") you're not used to any distro, you should pay attention on what Colin and William are writing about. Perhaps it's time to read about some distros, check the differences, test a few of them, etc.<br>
<br>It's really up to you. You're the only one who could say which distro would be better for your machine.<br><br>best,<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;border-collapse:collapse"><p>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Colin McGregor <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:colin.mc151-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org" target="_blank">colin.mc151-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid" class="gmail_quote">
<div>On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 9:58 AM, bob295 <<a href="mailto:icanprogram-sKcZck+fQKg@public.gmane.org" target="_blank">icanprogram-sKcZck+fQKg@public.gmane.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> A colleague of mine has acquired a used HP laptop (HP Pavilion dv9000 AMD<br>
> Turion 64 x2 Mobile Tech TL-52 x2 1600 MHz).<br>
><br>
> Any suggestions on what Linux distro would be best for this machine?<br>
<br>
</div>If you were to ask 20 people "What the best flavour of ice cream?",<br>
you could get 20 legitimate, but different answers.<br>
<br>
I run Debian on my laptop, which for some is arguably not the "best",<br>
but I have been running Debian on my desktop, so I am familiar with<br>
where things are, how things are organized etc.. So, is your colleague<br>
familiar with a major distribution currently? That is where I would<br>
start, any MAJOR Linux distribution should be okay on a laptop, and<br>
the ease of transition from desktop to laptop could well be worth any<br>
minor defects the disto. has in dealing with laptops. If there is a<br>
show stopper with the desktop distro., then I would be looking at<br>
distributions from the same conceptual family, so if they know Debian,<br>
I would look at say Ubuntu, or if they know Red Hat then a look at<br>
Fedora/CentOS would be worth while.<br>
<br>
If they don't currently know a Linux distribution, then you are<br>
starting at square one, and a range of arguments can be made for<br>
different distributions. I would suggest your colleague stick with one<br>
of the major distributions (more likely to include support / updates<br>
for oddball laptop hardware), but comments on my part beyond that are<br>
likely to trigger an unwanted flame war...<br>
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Colin McGregor<br>
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> Thanks in advance for your help.<br>
><br>
> bob<br>
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