spiffware Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 well topic says it all. I got this laptop it seems to only work well with vista i really dont feel like leaving vista on it. i would love to do something good with it. I tried down grading it to xp what a nightmare. missing drivers for just about everything important. model you ask? its a gateway mt3705. i do have a full recovery disk just incase what ever i do with it don't work so any ideas i might just try. so shoot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 Ubuntu is laptop friendly, and will be dead easy to setup. Fedora will probally be happy, but slightly less newbie proof. I like FreeBSD myself, but its a bit of a fiddle to setup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiffware Posted April 17, 2008 Author Share Posted April 17, 2008 well im far from a newbie to freebsd but it is fickle to setup these days. also I like the easy update install of new programs to freesbd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleted Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 I find OpenSuse easier to install that Ubuntu and I find it more user friendly while keeping its Power user side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeoneE1se Posted April 17, 2008 Share Posted April 17, 2008 I find OpenSuse easier to install that Ubuntu and I find it more user friendly while keeping its Power user side. *nix plus commandline = POWER USER Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiffware Posted April 17, 2008 Author Share Posted April 17, 2008 I find OpenSuse easier to install that Ubuntu and I find it more user friendly while keeping its Power user side. *nix plus commandline = POWER USER i totally agree im a command line guy but i do want a gue for websites and such Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeoneE1se Posted April 18, 2008 Share Posted April 18, 2008 I meant anything sitting on a *nix core that you can get to the command line portion of make it power user. No matter what the GUI is like Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spiffware Posted April 25, 2008 Author Share Posted April 25, 2008 well i went with fedora 8 and updated kernel so i can run my wireless network. to bad it dont have wep or wpa but maybe later. we will see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phredsir Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 Stinks that linux does not work on my laptop the video drivers dont work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 Ubuntu is laptop friendly, and will be dead easy to setup. Fedora will probally be happy, but slightly less newbie proof. I like FreeBSD myself, but its a bit of a fiddle to setup. i would say ubuntu as well just for the easy setup and the fact that it is very well documented Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeoneE1se Posted April 30, 2008 Share Posted April 30, 2008 Stinks that linux does not work on my laptop the video drivers dont work linux does work on your laptop you just haven't put any effort into getting it to work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uber_tom Posted May 5, 2008 Share Posted May 5, 2008 Leet use slack. I use opensuse (i didn't like my vaio though) You didn't say why you need Linux. personally I'd put more effort into the XP downgrade it's likely you'll have better hardware support (i'm sure there'll be drivers for all your hardware on the world wide interweb). i don't have good experience with laptops and linux, wireless support is better then it was, but its still not that good). also on a general Linux rant what is the deal with all this mount by ID crap and why am i always having to manually put all my drives in fstab. The 'easier Linux tries to be the more confused i get. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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