8 hours to decide on a Distro

[Haggis Veteran]

Ok guys while doing an update on OpenSUSE last night i came back to a

OH NO SOMETHING WENT WRONG screen

I know its the Intel driver that's not working correctly so its an easy fix

but i thought why not take the chance to try something new so i am looking for ideas on some distros to use

Not keen on Mint or Ubuntu as they seem to have problems with my hardware

[+Frank B. Subscriber²]

Give Fedora 17 a try.

[Haggis Veteran]

i actually download the live cd last night to get all my data off my hard drive lol

[articuno1au]

Linux Mint Debian Edition is worth a look (I'm assuming you said no to Mint because it's Ubuntu derived).

I quite like it. Failing that I'd say Debian.

If you want a real hardcore Linux experience, perhaps Gentoo?

[Haggis Veteran]

Linux Mint Debian Edition is worth a look (I'm assuming you said no to Mint because it's Ubuntu derived).

I quite like it. Failing that I'd say Debian.

If you want a real hardcore Linux experience, perhaps Gentoo?

Still trying to get Arch working so i dont think Gentoo is for me lol

[derkim]

debian... very stable, aptitude/adept makes it very simple.

[cork1958]

Zenwalk just works with everything I've tried it on.

http://zenwalk.org/

[articuno1au]

Still trying to get Arch working so i dont think Gentoo is for me lol

Me either :p

I put my money behind LMDE then >.<

[Cute James]

Just out of curiosity, what happens in 8 hours?

[Haggis Veteran]

lol

I finish work and go home and download the distro i am going to try

[Original Poster]

centOS ?

[Detection]

Just out of curiosity, what happens in 8 hours?

You mean you don't know what happens if you take longer than 8 hours to pick a distro ? :o

[Glassed Silver]

Care telling us what it's for, what you want to do with it, whether you like being on cutting-edge developments of linux, etc etc?

Glassed Silver:mac

[Haggis Veteran]

yeah sure i use it for

Web Browsing

Email

Watching Videos

Playing games

html/php/mysql use netbeans for code and usually have php,apache and mysql installed just so i can test stuff before uploading it

sometimes play about with perl and python

some graphics stuff but nothing heavy

[The Laughing Man]

Just out of curiosity what are your hardware specs, wondering why you've had so many issues so far.

[Haggis Veteran]

Its a compaq cq70 220em i cant get specs right now as at work :)

[Haggis Veteran]

best i could get with not having access to laptop lol

Conexant High-Definition SmartAudio 221 Driver

Intel Chipset Installation Utility for ICH9m

Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Chipset

Atheros Wireless

Realtek RTL8101E Family PCI-E Fast Etherne

160gb Hard Drive

DVD Writer

2gb RAM

[remixedcat]

Fedora w KDE it should work fine. I used it last on a 512MB RAM vmware VM and it was pretty smooth so you shouldn't have any trouble on that system.,...

[Haggis Veteran]

yeah with Unbuntu and Mint i had problems with the graphics

with Arch i cant get networking to work correctly (but prob just me being a dumbass lol)

[Haggis Veteran]

does Debian come with Gnome 2 or 3?

[Glassed Silver]

does Debian come with Gnome 2 or 3?

I think they use Gnome 3 now...

I'd go with Fedora and see which DE you like best. :)

Glassed Silver:mac

[Haggis Veteran]

yeah i have spent most of the day looking at the different distros (fedora, mint, mint debian, debian, archbang) much to my bosses digust lol

I think i have settled on Fedora for now

[Growled Member]

Fedora is a good choice. It's never worked for me, though. I guess I'm too use to Debian.

[remixedcat]

Arch was touchy for me.... specially on dell laptops....

[Yorak]

Arch was touchy for me.... specially on dell laptops....

Touchy in what way? Just curious.

And Fedora is a good distro. What problems were you having with Ubuntu and Linux Mint, specifically?