what is the best distro for HP laptop?

Fri Dec 14 21:04:59 UTC 2012

And one other thing to keep in mind: If you ask for help from a
friend/relative/coworker, what distro are *they* most comfortable with?

This mostly applies to people just starting out, who have no previous
preferences.  Anyone can learn anything, given enough time and motivation.

--Bob.

On 12-12-14 12:43 PM, William Weaver wrote:
> 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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