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[Tor]

I've created a 20Gb partition on my Laptop using partition magic. Now I plan on installing a flavor of Linux on that partition and booting to it while not working. My question is what Linux flavors work on laptops?

I have a DELL D620.

[Tor]

I might give Ubuntu a go. I've read that PCLinuxOS works well on some laptops.

[cutiger95]

I have Linux on my laptop and Mythbuntu on my desktop. Personally if you want to configure everything yourself go with Ubuntu.

If you want it to work out of the box then visit LinuxMintand give them a try. The Dist. is free and overall it just works.

[TcM]

Ubuntu LiveCD worked fine for me, so I bet the installation will work fine too.

[TcM]

Yes, I love the fact that it recognized everything even from the live CD.

[cutiger95]

It does work on my laptop out of the box. However Flash and several codecs are limited as they don't or won't step on toes with free distribution and proprietary dist. software.

Mint is highly compatible with Ubuntu and just about everything works right with the LiveCD. Just my opinion.

[TcM]

To say the truth I tried watching some youtube videos from Ubuntu (Installed) on my desktop and I must say that while trying to view it in full screen it was a horror experience....maybe it's just me, or because flash on ubuntu sux.

[cutiger95]

If you managed to get flash to install and run with Ubuntu you managed to get further than I did and yes it does totally blow.

Stick with Mint and it won't lead you wrong. As far as the other distro's I am not really sure if they have the same issues or not.

[TcM]

I never tried Mint, but maybe i will sometime, but yes I installed flash normally... I had a choice between 2 versions, tried both but both sucked.

[Tor]

Is Mint a new distro of Ubuntu or a different distro completely?