what is the best distro for HP laptop?

[sciguy-Lmt0BfyYGMw at public.gmane.org]

The HP TX2 laptop I have runs Manjaro Linux, the only distro I know of
which recognizes all (or most) of my gizmos, such as touchscreen,
finger/pen input, touchpad, wireless, and so on. Even Mint was too
unreliable, and did not recognize wireless. All linux distros I've tried
suffer from making my mouse pointer "nervous" --- going to random places
on screen and sometimes (not always) invoking radom point-and-click
events.

While Manjaro was the best for me, it also suffers from being a small,
young distro, with an uncommon package manager, and compression format.
They allow you to burn a bootable image to test it out.

I was interested in smaller distros due to my inability to afford much
room on my hard drive for dual-boot. I attempted to rate these small
distros on my blog: http://tinyurl.com/cbk5vh3

Here are some further comments and observations about Manjaro:
http://tinyurl.com/cgwmfke

Commentary on the Top 100 (as of earlier this year) distros from
DistroWatch: http://tinyurl.com/cwlal8r

Paul

> 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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