for laptops, i prefer using xfce coz very lightweight

depends on hardware la bro. Kalau dah laptop i7, RAM over 4gb takkan nak XFCE gak. membazir.

kalau netbook pakai xfce I leh terima lagi

This post has been edited by FlameReaper: Feb 26 2013, 08:12 PM

bought illegear laptop last month and installed arch linux.. no issue till now..

Hi everyone,

Happy hari raya, I stumbler on this very old thread, i guess and got attracted by the topic, here is my own UX on linux over the years, it all started in year 2000-2002, wow I am very old.

Back then, it was hard to learn or deal with linux problem, where all my PC kaki are all win based... and getting help from internet is not easy if your 1st linux distro installation doest get the modem to work!

Fast forward to year 2006-08, where I got my hand on one of the Ubuntu distro, forgot the version number, forgive me guys. I do remember I did the installation on the Pentium 4 (Dell) desktop, everything just work out of the box.

And time goes by, in year 2010, I bought a 2nd hand Dell laptop with AMD64 cpu that came with it. And I upgrade the bios under win xp b4 I removed the default OS. Well according to Dell that this laptop only supported upto 2GB (max), but Ubuntu linux told me differences things, " sudo lshw " .

walah... it shown the Dell laptop can support upto 4GB, hmmm... after some research on the web, I bought new 4GB ram and remove the old ram, here goes the new 4GB ram. Then install Ubuntu 64 bit OS. Done deal happy os, happy laptop , and a happy guy

drum roll, here the new toy in year 2013, my new Asus K46C . This time Asus told me (what they told the world in their product specs, this K46C just run at 8GB max). As always, "sudo lshw" it shown 16GB max. Alright, so I told my pc supplier to install 16GB on it, after it send by from Asus with the new 16GB installed. By then I am ready to roll up my sleeve and install the Ubuntu 13.04 64 bit OS on it. Everything work fine, aside for the display card, battery time and the brightness bug, I can live with those bug

a side note : if anyone play with the mini-itx (intel box), this baby can hold up to 8GB ram, not 4GB as they advertised !

Hi everyone,

Linux Mint 17 code name "Qiana" based on "Ubuntu Trusty" is laptop ready. i used KDE 32bit version.
support hard disk encryption. dual boot home only, single boot mint only full disk encryption.
touchpad support working great. tap, scrolling working out of box.

But mint you have to reinstall every time you want to upgrade.. big hassle

http://askubuntu.com/questions/140322/is-i...m-my-mobo-takes

sudo dmidecode -t 6 will even tell you if it is dual-channel


This post has been edited by wodenus: Aug 15 2014, 04:27 PM

starting mint 17, mint wil use ubuntu LTS. So upgrade should be no a problem anymore.

I'm lusting over this rig but it sure as hell won't ever get to this side of the pond. Closest thing probably would be the latest Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro but it's not the small OTG size I'm looking for. Hopefully there's a Yoga 3 11 in the pipeline or anything else similar.

Sorry for very late reply.
Mint LMDE can upgrade to newer versions "forever" without breaking anything.
Base distro is debian, not ubuntu.

tried Ubuntu 14 on both Dell D630 and HP Mini 110, works

I'm using Arch on my sony Vaio .I choose LXDE for my desktop enviroment and it runs like a charm. it really works pretty well so far.

This post has been edited by Zaban: Dec 5 2016, 11:13 PM

Using puppy linux on my rig, fuhh bedesup

Double post

This post has been edited by OvenBaked: Jun 14 2015, 10:56 PM

Hi-------------anyone know LINUX MAGEIA ?

generally,you should be fine if your PC/laptops use INTEL chipsets and CPUs.

anyone running linux on Asus Zenbook? Is it compatible?
Or should i go for hp envy series?
I am looking for an affordable ultrabook and run ubuntu on it.

I think for compatibility questions, Google for that particular model and its relevant models, most things are covered in Archlinux wiki there and can applied on Ubuntu too

generally should be no problem but do take a test drive with an Ubuntu live USB or you haven't bought yet?

Cant go wrong with Thinkpad.

But still, you have to face one universal linux problem:
Fingerprint sensor driver that actually work is nonexistent.

Found this:
https://certification.ubuntu.com/
Whatever is listed there is likely to have good linux support.