Linux on a laptop

michellez

michellez

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Who has any experience of Linux on a laptop?

I love Linux (Gentoo being the weapon of choice :D) but I am worringly tempted to just leave Windows XP on it! :rolleyes:

Like things like user switching too much.. tho I could get around this by running 2 x sessions.

Just a subject to throw up some discussion I guess! What issues if any have people come across etc?
 
I installed Mepis linux on my mates laptop because he was fed up with windows. The problem we had was that Mepis could not reconize his bluetooth wireless card. Eventually we just gave up and he is now running win xp again.
 
I'm running mepis on my HP NX6110. Totally ditched XP around 6 months ago and went to Fedora/SuSE and now finally mepis. Mepis seems more responsive and I like the feel / organisation of it.
 
I'm dual booting XP & Gentoo on an Acer Aspire 1355LC. Works quite well after a bit of tweaking. My only advice is to check the hardware support. I have a horrible Unichrome graphics chipset, whilst the system is useable it would be nice to have a little extra performance out of it.

I used an Ubuntu live cd to check support for things like my wireless card. Once you know it can work with linux it means you can then start setting up Gentoo to do it.
 
SuSE 9.3 Pro here and no problems. Everything works great, wireless needed manual config tho'.
 
I use kubuntu (dapper flight 4) on my Toshiba Satellite Pro M40 - and have got everything working perfectly - most difficult were wifi and ATi's graphics drivers (although it worked with standard VESA drivers, I couldnt get it to work with the native screen res and video was very choppy). Very happy with it.
 
Depends on the age of the laptop, be careful with some Wireless cards, you may have to get a wrapper for them.

I use Debian 3.1 on my Dell C400 and ia VMware on my X300.
 
I've got an ageing laptop, Ubuntu with KDE (taken off the Kubuntu CD post install) works perfectly other than the sound which seems to have a 1-2 second delay, Wireless was fairly easy to set up with Ndiswrapper, took me about an hour (as I know nothing worthwhile about linux)
 
I got Suse 10.0 running on my Dell Inspiron 8600c. No problems at all. Network setup was a dream really as well as Bluetooth. First time I have used linux like this and I must admit im liking it. Will keep with this and use my main pc for gaming only
 
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