Which Linux distribution would you suggest me?
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 at
02:35
I am thinking of dual-booting windows 7 32-bit and a linux distribution on my laptop.I need a distribution which will be as small as possible(I don’t care what applications it will have) and fast.Also,bear in mind that I am not an experienced linux user.
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Ubuntu is the premier desktop distribution of Linux. It only comes on one CD if your running Windows 7 on your laptop I’m sure you have plenty of space for it. If you are not an experianced user Ubuntu is the easiest OS to install bar none. I have a harder time installing Windows. Ubuntu practically jumps off the disk. You don’t have to go fishing around for drivers like you do with windows. All the gnu open source drivers are included on the install disk. It’s a great os with a great package manager and a joy to work with.
Install gentoo
ubuntu is user friendly
If you are willing to learn and read lots and lots of documentation,
Arch Linux – http://www.archlinux.org/ – is your best choice.
If you need something that’s quick to setup and easy to use,
Ubuntu – http://www.ubuntu.com – is your best choice.
Definitely Ubuntu
Two great and easy to use / learn, Linux Distros designed for Windows-switchers are: Linux Mint, and FreeSpire Linux. Goolge for them.
But, both of these, as well as many other Distros, should be run as a "Live CD" first, before you even think about installing them on your hard drive. The "Live CD" doesn’t change anything on your PC, period!
And, the "Live CD", lets you check that they are 100% compatible with your PC, and, determine if you actually like the Distro, or not.
TIP: Both ISO files are about 700MB, which is tiny compared to Windows Vista or W7.
ubuntu is not the premier linux desktop – its the most supported but that doesn’t make it premier (no proprietry software for one thing)
freespire is not supported anymore – so don’t bother with that (the last freespire release was in 2007)
mandriva and pclinuxos use the kde desktop – which is more like windows explorer than gnome is (the ubuntu desktop),
http://pclinuxos.com/?page_id=180
http://www2.mandriva.com/downloads/?p=linux-one
both are free and both use proprietry software