what is the best distro for HP laptop?

[Colin McGregor]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 9:58 AM, bob295 <icanprogram-sKcZck+fQKg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> A colleague of mine has acquired a used HP laptop (HP Pavilion dv9000 AMD
> Turion 64 x2 Mobile Tech TL-52 x2 1600 MHz).
>
> Any suggestions on what Linux distro would be best for this machine?

If you were to ask 20 people "What the best flavour of ice cream?",
you could get 20 legitimate, but different answers.

I run Debian on my laptop, which for some is arguably not the "best",
but I have been running Debian on my desktop, so I am familiar with
where things are, how things are organized etc.. So, is your colleague
familiar with a major distribution currently? That is where I would
start, any MAJOR Linux distribution should be okay on a laptop, and
the ease of transition from desktop to laptop could well be worth any
minor defects the disto. has in dealing with laptops. If there is a
show stopper with the desktop distro., then I would be looking at
distributions from the same conceptual family, so if they know Debian,
I would look at say Ubuntu, or if they know Red Hat then a look at
Fedora/CentOS would be worth while.

If they don't currently know a Linux distribution, then you are
starting at square one, and a range of arguments can be made for
different distributions. I would suggest your colleague stick with one
of the major distributions (more likely to include support / updates
for oddball laptop hardware), but comments on my part beyond that are
likely to trigger an unwanted flame war...


Colin McGregor

> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> bob
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