I see suse as "you know redhats way is neat let's break it" I am sort
of biased as I was raised on debian and it's variants. That's the
thing with rhinux most answers are personal preference. Example I
don't do gnome and I know people who think kde is too windows. I would
grab the live editions of as many distros as you can and run em all
see what clicks

On 10/18/08, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows@usa.net> wrote:
> After a long battle with technology, Stephen wrote:
>>> On 10/18/08, mike havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I've done web searches but I prefer talking one-on-many. Which is the
>>>> best laptop distro? Please be aware that if the group-decision is a dvd
>>>> I will need someone to burn it as I do not have a dvd-burner.
>
> FWIW, the 5" DVD+-RWs are pretty darn cheap at $35 after shipping from
> NewEgg.
> In 2000, a 4x CD-RW was $180.  My, how stuff gets cheaper (except laptop
> parts....)
>
>>> hardware works by simply installing the module back ports. A lot of
>>> folks don't like ubuntu but I work on borked centos boxes all day so
>>> when I get home I want things to just work. That said the next big
>>> thing is suppose to be pclinuxos so it may be worth a look
>
> RPM has its flaws, though they've papered over most of them.  All distros
> have
> warts; the key is to find one whose warts you can live with.
>
>> that said Gentoo is a decent choice as well, however it is a lot more
>> involved to get running
>
> The thing that takes the longest is setting all the USE flags.  Then
> you "emerge kde" and let it run overnight, and everything after that is
> incremental.  Unless something like the libexif mess that happened a while
> back happens again.
>
>> Or possibly OpenSUSE, but while it may have lots of bells and whistles it
>> loads a TON of stuff.
>
> SuSE has always had more weird bugs than other distros IME.
>
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