My struggle with getting small Linux distros installed on my laptop

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 01:46:08PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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.

That is, the mint linux debian edition.

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Len Sorensen
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