In your situation I would stick with Ubuntu, but only use say of the hard
disk for the install. Then load virtualbox to play with several other
distros like Mint (my current), decide if you like any of them more than
Ubuntu, and then install that one onto the free space you left open.

Or if you don't want to partition your drive for some reason, test the other
distros on your old laptop and go from there.


On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:23 AM, James Finstrom <
jfinstrom@rhinoequipment.com> wrote:

> It was a dark stormy night in 2005. A stranger in a trench coat approached
> and handed me a CD. I no longer had to fight the benign little issues nor
> did I have to put any effort in to make my laptop run Linux. Alas I have
> been using derivatives of Ubuntu ever since. I used Kbuntu for years then
> they decided to move to KDE 4 which lacked my ability to like it.
> I switched over to gnome and we have become good friends. Ok lets get to the
> point. I am getting a new laptop today and I am debating of weather I should
> stick with Ubuntu who has never done me wrong or do I try something new.  I
> have no issues from a technical or moral standpoint with Ubuntu and am happy
> to use it until I do. That being said It has been almost 6 years and there
> have been many new distros born and old ones brought up to par so I would
> like feed back. I do wish to stay in the Debian family tree but outside of
> that I am open to suggestions.
>
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> James Finstrom
>
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