what is the best distro for HP laptop?

Fri Dec 14 17:43:29 UTC 2012

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.

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.

Will

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Marcelo Cavalcante
<kalibslack-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>wrote:

> I think the big question here should be:
>
> Which distro do you use and feel confortable with?
>
> I think that's the point you should look for.
>
> 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..
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> It's really up to you. You're the only one who could say which distro
> would be better for your machine.
>
> best,
>
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> On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Colin McGregor <colin.mc151-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>wrote:
>
>> 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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