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(56,582 posts) Fri Feb 22, 2013, 12:41 AM Feb 2013

Distro suggestions for my laptop? [View all]

I'm normally a Debian guy, but Debian's acpi thermal zone driver incorrectly detects an overheat and shuts down. Ditto Ubuntu (which I dislike anyways).

OpenBSD runs great, but I can't watch YouTube, and it doesn't see the battery so I have no idea how long I have left running off AC.

Net- and FreeBSD don't see the wireless (Intel 6235) and I don't like NDIS.

My only other goto is Slackware, but the installer for 14 is broken (half the packages are in .xz, which it doesn't recognize).

I'm rolling a Linux From Scratch install right now, but I usually get sick of that after about 3 days of compiling or so. Anybody got a distro they can recommend for me to try?

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Distro suggestions for my laptop? [View all] Recursion Feb 2013 OP

Did you try opensuse? d_r Feb 2013 #1

I used SuSE way WAY back in the day Recursion Feb 2013 #6

Looks like FreeBSD can support the Intel 6235 ChromeFoundry Feb 2013 #2

If I'm reading that it takes patching the source of 10? Recursion Feb 2013 #7

Just installed Linux Mint KDE on a 3 year old laptop... My Pet Goat Feb 2013 #3

I'm running Mint 13 XFCE on my Toshiba. hobbit709 Feb 2013 #4

Mint is, like Ubuntu, based on Debian Sid Recursion Feb 2013 #5

I liked the XFCE desktop better than Cinnamon or MATE after trying all 3 of them. hobbit709 Feb 2013 #8

I'm a WindowMaker guy mostly Recursion Feb 2013 #9

i too prefer xfce Phillip McCleod Feb 2013 #10

ima arch junkie myself Phillip McCleod Feb 2013 #11

Yeah, in the end I'm going Arch Recursion Feb 2013 #13

yep that's a fact. Phillip McCleod Feb 2013 #14

I feel like Gnome3 makes way too many decisions for the user Recursion Feb 2013 #16

yep half the fun of linux is customizing every detail. Phillip McCleod Feb 2013 #17

But if they wanted to make Canonical happy they completely failed Recursion Feb 2013 #18

maybe that's why they're so pissy right now. Phillip McCleod Feb 2013 #19

I'm glad my programming is lower-level than that Recursion Mar 2013 #20

once again.. i agree completely. Phillip McCleod Mar 2013 #21

(btw.. windowmaker? i had to look it up. wow. old school.) Phillip McCleod Feb 2013 #15

Ubuntu LTS 12.04 n/t L0oniX Feb 2013 #12