Linux for your taste (sorry Naw :D) (14 Viewers)

[V]

Windows? :devil:

 

Buy on AliExpress.com

[icemaη]

No thanks

 

[Martin]

Must be something wrong with the kernel then.

Either that or, perhaps more likely, a hardware issue.

 

[icemaη]

Either that or, perhaps more likely, a hardware issue.

Yup. Thats what I am guessing too. Its 3 and half years old, so its no surprise its acting cranky...

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Yup. Thats what I am guessing too. Its 3 and half years old, so its no surprise its acting cranky...

Get another HP Laptop.

 

[V]

BTW, Sheik, remember that ancient HP laptop that died on me not long ago? I drowned the working parts for a 100€.

From 1000€ to a 100€ in less than 7 years.

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

BTW, Sheik, remember that ancient HP laptop that died on me not long ago? I drowned the working parts for a 100€.

From 1000€ to a 100€ in less than 7 years.

That's not a bad depreciation actually. Good for you.

Now Asif...

 

[Martin]

BTW, Sheik, remember that ancient HP laptop that died on me not long ago? I drowned the working parts for a 100€.

From 1000€ to a 100€ in less than 7 years.

You sell spare HP parts at the plumbing store now?

 

[V]

You sell spare HP parts at the plumbing store now?

No, you joker, you. I sold it in the yellow pages. And it only took one day as well.

 

[Martin]

Yellow pages, aren't you an industrious fella

 

[gray]

Has anyone got any experience with Debian?

I've heard good things and I'm thinking of giving it a try, especially in light of the direction that Ubuntu is going on this days, which doesn't really sit right with me.

Right now I'm leaning towards LMDE.

 

[JCK]

I've been using Mint for the past year and was extremely satisfied. Debian should be good if you have the energy to install it.

 

[icemaη]

On 11.04 now. I think I hate what they have done to it.

 

[Martin]

Has anyone got any experience with Debian?

I've heard good things and I'm thinking of giving it a try, especially in light of the direction that Ubuntu is going on this days, which doesn't really sit right with me.

Right now I'm leaning towards LMDE.

I don't think I've ever installed it, despite all the others that I have. The install was (then) relatively long and complicated. I'm not sure if debian ever did (or plans to) move on from that.

 

[Martin]

On 11.04 now. I think I hate what they have done to it.

I switched back to gnome myself. But there is some annoying new thing in the window manager that keeps resizing the windows wildly and places them in the wrong spot too.

 

[JCK]

I don't think I've ever installed it, despite all the others that I have. The install was (then) relatively long and complicated. I'm not sure if debian ever did (or plans to) move on from that.

Longer and more complicated than Gentoo?

 

[Martin]

Longer and more complicated than Gentoo?

If not longer then at least comparatively long and since at the time I was not that interested in learning debian I didn't bother getting into it.

 

[Martin]

http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/10/microsofts-acquisition-of-skype-for-8-5-billion-becomes-offici/

 

[V]

http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/10/microsofts-acquisition-of-skype-for-8-5-billion-becomes-offici/

Couldn't care less now with Gtalk calls coming to Android, I've just about completely stopped using Skype.

 

[icemaη]

The new version of Ubuntu seems to have handled my laptop's heating problem a bit. Its not completely solved, but much better than earlier.