My struggle with getting small Linux distros installed on my laptop

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 08:37:22PM -0400, Christopher Browne wrote:
> I'd be curious as to how stock Debian compares...  It can certainly be
> tiny, more so than most options out there.
> 
> Expected challenges to me would be...
> - might need to pull custom kernel to support hardware, as Debian has a
> tendency to elderly kernels in stable releases
> - I'm not sure WiFi support is necessarily what all would term "friendly"
> (mind you, haven't tried that lately, so I could be surprised)
> - not sure what out-of-box touch sense you're likely to get
> 
> But I'd expect "office" software to be handled pretty happily.  And you can
> have *any* window manager you want, including plenty of obscure ones!  :-)

I don't find Debian difficult to get on a laptop and working, but of
course some laptops have unsupported hardware that makes things harder.

If you want life to be simple, try mint.  My wife tried it on her ideapad
and everything just works it seems.  Quite something to see for a linux
install.

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Len Sorensen
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