Which distro is best for laptops?

On Sun, 04 May 2008 13:36:35 -0400, Tattoo Vampire wrote:
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> Quack quacked impotently:
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>> Why are you asking here? Most of the advocates use Linux only at home
>> and not on their laptops. Most use Windows during the day.[/color]
>
> Another garbage post from one of the most useless, lying, trolling pieces
> of human excrement to ever infest COLA.
>
> Too bad your mother didn't know of uses for a coathanger other than for
> hanging up clothes.[/color]

If he'd come out of a hole 2" further forward, he *could* have been a
human being.

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whitemice wrote:
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> Woe to the newbie who
> comes here thinking they can get useful information or advice.[/color]

So you'll be leaving, then...
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William Poaster wrote:
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> If he'd come out of a hole 2" further forward, he *could* have been a
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LOL
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>Hadron quacked:[color=blue]
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>> More proof of distro hell.[/color][/color]

It's not "hell" to download and burn a few Live CD's and try them,
fsckwit.

On Mon, 05 May 2008 12:20:27 -0500, chrisv wrote:
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>>Hadron quacked:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> More proof of distro hell.[/color][/color]
>
> It's not "hell" to download and burn a few Live CD's and try them,
> fsckwit.[/color]

More proof of Quack's inanity, & insignificance.

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In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Hadron
<hadronquark@googlemail.com>
wrote
on Sun, 04 May 2008 12:43:13 +0200
<fvk402$ev$1@registered.motzarella.org>:[color=blue]
> "jim" <jim@home.net> writes:
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>> Mainly I am asking which distro has the best driver support for laptops -
>> specifically Acer laptops.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> jim
>>
>>[/color]
>
> Why are you asking here? Most of the advocates use Linux only at home
> and not on their laptops.[/color]

Hello! nx9010 here, running Gentoo.

:-P~
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> Most use Windows during the day.[/color]

I've gone weeks without having to fire that crap up.
The only reason I do so nowadays is for VSS, and that only
because there's something buggy in Wine that VSS doesn't
like -- and I think that's since been resolved.

I'll probably still need to fire it up every 3 months
to change my password, but that's about it.
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> You're far
> better off asking in ##Linux on irc freenode or in the general linux
> newsgroup.[/color]

Which is ... ?

Teranews gives me these names (from /var/spool/news/leaf.node/groupinfo):

comp.os.linux
comp.os.linux.admin
comp.os.linux.advocacy
comp.os.linux.advocasy
comp.os.linux.alpha
comp.os.linux.announce
comp.os.linux.answers
comp.os.linux.development
comp.os.linux.development.apps
comp.os.linux.development.system
comp.os.linux.embedded
comp.os.linux.hardawe
comp.os.linux.hardware
comp.os.linux.help
comp.os.linux.m68k
comp.os.linux.misc
comp.os.linux.network
comp.os.linux.networking
comp.os.linux.portable
comp.os.linux.powerpc
comp.os.linux.questions
comp.os.linux.redhat
comp.os.linux.security
comp.os.linux.setup
comp.os.linux.suse
comp.os.linux.test
comp.os.linux.x
comp.os.linux.x.video
comp.os.linux.xbox

.... and that's just for the comp.*; there's de.*, nl.*, and
han.* as well as a lot of other variants.
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>
> FWIW, I use Debian Lenny on my thinkpad x30 and except for
> hibernation/suspend and the need to change the wireless card it works
> fine. I even installed the entire thing encrypted.[/color]

My wireless system worked fine as is, but maybe that's
the luck of the draw; laptops are a little weird that way.
I'm still working on hibernate/suspend as well, though it
does show signs of trying to function.
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>
> The question you should be asking is: what HW is used in the laptop
> (its probably only the wireless and the magic buttons you need worry
> about) and ask about that HW specifically. A laptop is the sum of the
> parts.[/color]

And sometimes they work together. ;-)

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On 2008-05-04, Hadron <hadronquark@googlemail.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> "jim" <jim@home.net> writes:
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>> Mainly I am asking which distro has the best driver support for laptops -
>> specifically Acer laptops.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> jim
>>
>>[/color]
>
> Why are you asking here? Most of the advocates use Linux only at home
> and not on their laptops. Most use Windows during the day. You're far[/color]

[deletia]

I've had Debian and Ubuntu on a number of Dells and Vaios with
considerable success. I was able to use the onboard wifi on the
models that had it but this is going to depend on what your specific
hardware is.

Really, you only need to treat the laptop as a desktop with a
particular set of hardware. The individual components you have will
ultimately determine how well things will work out for you. The
differences between the distros will be relatively minor next to this.

You've got to take it a machine at a time.

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Tattoo Vampire wrote:
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> chrisv wrote:
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>> It's not "hell" to download and burn a few Live CD's and try them,
>> fsckwit.[/color]
>
> It is for Hadron because it takes time away from his planning and
> implementation of the Quack Central Distro Approval Committee.[/color]

I guess so. I mean, the fsckwit clearly prefers the Windows situation,
where you're told, essentially, "this is what you'll use and this is what
it will cost you".

Apparently that's better than trying a few of the top distros on LiveCD's
and then choosing which one suits you best.

Amazing.

In article <NXdTj.28208$DY1.21979@bignews5.bellsouth.net>,
"jim" <jim@home.net> wrote:
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> Mainly I am asking which distro has the best driver support for laptops -
> specifically Acer laptops.[/color]

This won't directly answer your question, but might point you in a way
that can help you find the answer. Laptops are often not made by the
company whose name is on them. I *think* Acer is one of the companies
that does make many (most? all?) of their own laptop, but I *think* they
also manufacture them for some other companies, too.

If you can find out if the Acer models you are interested in are also
sold under other vendor's names, then you can widen your search, and
look for reviews of drivers for those other laptops, and have a very
good chance they will apply to the corresponding Acers.


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The Ghost In The Machine <ewill@sirius.tg00suus7038.net> writes:
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> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Hadron
> <hadronquark@googlemail.com>
> wrote
> on Sun, 04 May 2008 12:43:13 +0200
> <fvk402$ev$1@registered.motzarella.org>:[color=green]
>> "jim" <jim@home.net> writes:
>>[color=darkred]
>>> Mainly I am asking which distro has the best driver support for laptops -
>>> specifically Acer laptops.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> jim
>>>
>>>[/color]
>>
>> Why are you asking here? Most of the advocates use Linux only at home
>> and not on their laptops.[/color]
>
> Hello! nx9010 here, running Gentoo.[/color]

"most"
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>
> :-P~
>[color=green]
>> Most use Windows during the day.[/color]
>
> I've gone weeks without having to fire that crap up.[/color]

"most"

You're becoming a bit of a "works for me" nut job Ghost. Get a grip.

In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Hadron
<hadronquark@googlemail.com>
wrote
on Tue, 06 May 2008 10:26:38 +0200
<fvp4o0$vpl$1@registered.motzarella.org>:[color=blue]
> The Ghost In The Machine <ewill@sirius.tg00suus7038.net> writes:
>[color=green]
>> In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Hadron
>> <hadronquark@googlemail.com>
>> wrote
>> on Sun, 04 May 2008 12:43:13 +0200
>> <fvk402$ev$1@registered.motzarella.org>:[color=darkred]
>>> "jim" <jim@home.net> writes:
>>>
>>>> Mainly I am asking which distro has the best driver support for laptops -
>>>> specifically Acer laptops.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>> jim
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Why are you asking here? Most of the advocates use Linux only at home
>>> and not on their laptops.[/color]
>>
>> Hello! nx9010 here, running Gentoo.[/color]
>
> "most"
>[color=green]
>>
>> :-P~
>>[color=darkred]
>>> Most use Windows during the day.[/color]
>>
>> I've gone weeks without having to fire that crap up.[/color]
>
> "most"
>
> You're becoming a bit of a "works for me" nut job Ghost. Get a grip.[/color]

But you can't deny it works for me. To be fair, what works
for me probably won't work for you; I write XSL with one
hand, know the basics of CSS (and have a copy of the specs
handy), and edit [X]HTML and raw SVG to make diagrams. I have
an adaptation (somewhere) of an old SGML format IBM developed
as well.

I even know data URLs. Not many have heard of them,
but they're a kludgy but handy workaround, and do solve
the problem of embedding pictures in an XML document.
(The main drawback: if one needs 5 copies of a single
picture in a document one needs to replicate the entire
URL 5 times -- a problem if the picture is big.)

Most others will probably use MS Office and Visio to
achieve similar effects, of lesser quality (MS Office is
renowned for putting a lot of goop in its HTML; I have no
idea what Visio will do if asked to produce SVG, though it
probably can generate Windows metafile output well enough;
I've yet to see any tool that truly understands CSS, though
Visual Studio Interdev does try).

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