[TriLUG] What is the Best 'Laptop Linux'?

[Kevin J.]

I've been running Ubuntu on my old Dell Inspiron and it's worked flawlessly, but I'm very impressed with OpenSUSE 11. I'd have to say that it ranks number one in the "everything just works" category thus far. I haven't installed it on a laptop yet, but Novell is pushing hard to get in tight with both HP and Lenovo so I'd imagine that OpenSUSE will have a lot of nice laptop-centric features being built in over the coming months. There are already a number of "tablet" and "pen" features in OpenSUSE and I'd love to see a really good Linux-based tablet pc on the market. 

-kevin



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Subject: [TriLUG] What is the Best 'Laptop Linux'?

I'm sorry if someone has already asked this question, but here goes:

I recently bought a Lenovo ThinkPad T61p with Vista installed (the license was relatively cheap... and windows can be useful at times), and am now getting ready to reformat the drive and install what will be my primary OS on this computer: Some Flavor of Linux.  My first thought was to go with Fedora 9, since it's what I'm used.  Then I considered the fact that Lenovo gives the option of preloading SUSE on some of its computers, meaning that openSUSE should have decent support for non-standard buttons, and the fingerprint reader.  But, well, the decision is still up in the air....

So, I have kind of a three part question:  What Linux flavor do you think I should use?  Which distro do you use?  And what do you think is the best variant for laptops in general?  Oh, and why?

Thanks in advance for any and all input on the subject,
Alex Kesling



      
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