If your current laptop is still functioning and you are more or less happy
with it, keep using it and test the distros you are interested in on your
new laptop! Why waste time with partitioning for this and for that and
virtual machines? Just install one os, play, install another os, play...
When you settle on one, leave it or install it on the new laptop and away
you go! If your old laptop is dead, then you should consider putting your
tried and true ubuntu on it and play with the others in a virtual machine.
I however have a deep dislike for anything *buntu and have been rather happy
with my lfs systems and Fedora when necessary. I'm also a die hard KDE guy.
I spent the last year on Ubuntu with Gnome, forced so I would learn it, and
I am back with KDE, now 4.6.1 and I love it, i don't miss Guh-nome at all.
I also just spent about a week with openSUSE 11.4 and well... it only lasted
about a week and I'm back on Fedora again. It is interesting to me. SUSE has
always been a KDE supporter and openSUSE, with the exception of one release,
not sure which, has always favored KDE as well. So how is it that a KDE
based distro can manage to screw up KDE so horridly? I guess it's not really
KDE they messed up, but their system and package system is bullocks!
I have been very happy with Fedora, once I figured out yum... kpackagekit is
worthless.
Nathan
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:17 PM, S Kreimeyer <
skreimey@gmail.com> wrote:
> You should make a Tiny Core Linux partition. It would be a fun project :
> )
> http://www.tinycorelinux.com/
>
>
> On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 11:16 -0700, Dazed_75 wrote:
>
> I would agree with Mike though I might not limit Ubuntu much in disk
> space. I say that just because if you find something you like better, you
> may well just replace Ubuntu with it.
>
> BTW, if you are not aware of it, a great many distros in the Debian family
> are Ubuntu derivatives like Mint is (thugh they now have a straight Debian
> derivative as well). For that matter, Debian itself may be a viable
> alternative for you. With Ubuntu moving to Unity and Debian to Gnome 3, it
> will make an interesting difference.
>
> Larry
>
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 8:52 AM, Mike Ballon <mike.ballon@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> 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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>
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