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 Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2007 4:42 pm
What is the best linux distro for a laptop ? I want something with good power menagement and support. I plan installing it on a dell Vostro 1500.
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2007 9:57 am
That depends on what you like though, you first need to know what you are looking for in the way of the GUI, if you like GNOME, DE or one of the others. Then you can pick the distro, not all distros can run all of the desktop environments. I was very happy with SuSE on my laptop power management wise I was able to get the full life of my battery out of it, and I didn't have to pay performance wise. I am sure that other members of the guild will say the same thing about their distro on their laptop.
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Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 6:57 pm
What I want:
1. Battery life as good as on windows or better
2. Working ports ( usb, IEEE, vga, s-video, ethernet)
3. Decent fan menagement... I dont whant my lappie to overheat... -_-
GUI:
I am not an expert but I prefer GNOME over KDE, I foud it a liitle bit OS X like.
Things I fear:
Soud card and wireless card problem ( the notebook im planing to buy has a dell N card wich is a broadcom card(I think) and I heard these dont really linux )
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:28 am
I got a broadcom card to work on my SuSE, you just have to use your windows driver to get it to work.
1. I got full battery life from my lappy running SuSE (until the battery went bad...)
2. Ports work (the kernel comes with the drivers you need and installs them for you)
3. The fan is managed by you kernel, and at default your lappy should stay at a decent temp (ie not to hot and not to cold.), but once you get to know the kernel a bit more you can tweak it the way you like it.
Some distros have support for more than one desktop, SuSE supports the major four.
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Posted: Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:05 pm
I haven't tweaked much in terms of power management, but both Mandriva and Ubuntu have good out of the box support for laptop hardware, including broadcom (in my experience). 3nodding
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Posted: Tue Jul 24, 2007 10:24 am
Broadcom now and days are support with anything really, if the distro you pick does not load your Wireless driver then you can ways use programs like NDISwrapper, Linuxant's Driver loader (Cost about $20 but its a life time liceance, works for any Linux pc, and they offer support for there program), and I'm sure Madwifi would work? (Guessing on that one).
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Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 7:21 pm
What I always do in these situations is Google search the laptop name and model along with "linux" and you'll get results.. It always works for me. Maybe your's will... There are distros that provide special features for certain laptops.. like KDE has special things for Sony VAIO's and IBM Thinkpads.. and then your hardware.. Ubuntu has a cool utility that gets restricted drivers for certain hardware that doesn't play nice with linux alone. Start at Google and see where to go from there. good luck.
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Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2008 4:42 am
I run gentoo on my laptop with no problems. Compiling software takes a while, and a lot of power, but I never install apps while on battery power anyway...
Over all I saw better performance under gentoo than I did under red hat on my laptop in terms of usability, battery life, and performance.
But to each his own, gentoo isn't right for everybody (in fact, very few), and you may wish to try Ubuntu or SuSE first...
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Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 4:40 am
anyone got experience with xandros?
i got an asus eee pc that came with it and i was wondering if anyone could tell me why my media player wont use the codecs i installed on it.
i use smplayer if thats any help.
but aside from my technical issues, the xandros distro seems to be reliable in terms of battery life.
and i've never had any temp problems.
its fairly simple and i like it but to each his own.
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Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 8:19 pm
The most I got to play with it was with I was trying to get WINE or Crossover pro to install Dreamweaver for this lady that bought her Asuse EEE at Target but didn't know it came with this "Linux" thing. From my 30 of trying to figure out its package management system, trying to figure out why apt-get couldn't install gcc (or any other C compiler), trying to compile a program from source (which lead to my trying to install gcc on the thing) I determined that it is more of a toy than a laptop. According to her it has great battery life though.
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Posted: Mon Apr 13, 2009 5:21 pm
Not too sure about Battery life, but CrunchBang's a good distro if you want something light, and with the least amount of fiddling or moddifying.
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Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 11:37 pm
If you have a Netbook you may want to look into Moblin, it is still in Alpha 2 but under KVM it has a 2 second boot time.
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Posted: Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:49 am
I tried to run openSUSE on my Acer Aspire One but it didn't really worked. The only one who did so far has been Ubuntu Netbook Remix, which also comes with the drivers for my Atheros wireless card.
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Posted: Mon Aug 03, 2009 2:23 pm
I been using Ubuntu with my HP laptop for a while and have yet to have problems with hardware and such. You should give Ubuntu a try.
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