I recommend SuSE... I have 9.1 running on my Thinkpad with everything working 
as expected. Note: I did upgrade the kernel to 2.6.10-ck in order to get the 
suspend to memory to work, but suspend to hard drive worked out of the box.

I think you will be hard pressed to find a distro that will make everything 
"just work" after install... You will need to do a little tweak here and 
there for sure (e.g. wireless).  But SuSE minimizes what tweaks you need to 
do and I think is good for a beginner.  

If you are a newbie stay away from Slackware.  Slackware is fine for the 
experienced user but not a newbie. 



> I want to install Linux on my laptop.
> Can anyone suggest a distro I should use and which I should
> stay away from. I am new to Linux so I cannot do all the stuff
> you experienced people can do with Linux so I need a simple install.
> Thanks a bunch.
> Mike
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