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On Wednesday 14 December 2011 11:31:03 you wrote: > I just had a Howard Beale moment with Apple. I'm mad as hell and I'm not > going to take it anymore. > > I'm curious what people can suggest for linux laptop? > Any suggestions for distros and hardware? > > thanks. b,chris. > Short version - download distros and try different ones before you get a computer to see which distro you like. imho First I usually try to find a laptop with the clear screen, lots of ram (the more the better), and NVDIA graphics card. I've run linux on several laptops: dell, sharp,alienware (pre dell ownership), and others. Most of the others are ones I boot from a linux disk to repair or recover files from them for other people. For the NVDIA driver, I always download it from the NVDIA WEB site and have not had any problem with that as opposed to package versions. I prefer Fedora having used redhat linux since version 0.98 about 1989. I would suggest that you download ISO files and burn those to DVD to install and test on an old machine to see what you like. Many you can download "live" editions and run straight from the disk. I like http://distrowatch.com because they have most every distribution there, even the unheard of ones. I love my MacBook and Fusion (vmware for mac). This is the only platform, to my knowledge, that you can run every OS on. Currently I have Windows 7, Fedora, GOS (Google Operating System, actually a linux dist), Android LIve, OpenSuse, React OS (a free Windows OS to run MS Windows programs),Koha, Solaris, and yesterday added Windows 8 developer edition. Some of these, like Koha, were VMs I downloaded. You can get a VMWare player program and download distros to see if you like them also. Thomas -- ========================================== Thomas McMillan Grant Bennett Appalachian State University Operations & Systems Analyst P O Box 32026 University Library Boone, North Carolina 28608 (828) 262 6587 Library Systems Help Desk: https://www.library.appstate.edu/help/ ==========================================