Used linux before--Want to try something 'different'.

Denji · 12-14-2009, 11:02 PM

EDIT: Found a much nicer forum with people willing to assist unlike those who I have ran into here. Much more helpful. This topic is useless now.

Greenfuse · 12-14-2009, 11:43 PM

Puppy Linux runs as root. It is lightweight but does not run a virtual machine.

Arch linux is quite customisable - install the bare (really bare) minimum then build it yourself. I use it with LXDE on old machines. You might even get Arch to run a GUI only as root, I have never tried. You might also fry your system in the process so think about it.

AutoBot · 12-15-2009, 01:29 AM

+1 for puppy, it will run well on your hardware and is about as lightweight as one wants an OS to be. But for having hardware run out of the box, ubuntu is hard to beat.

Denji · 12-15-2009, 05:56 AM

Unfortunately(fortunately?) I would like to completely avoid ubuntu, I figured it would be obvious since what I put in my first post about it.

gapan · 12-15-2009, 06:25 AM

What I understand from your post is that you don't really care about the distribution, but the desktop environment/window manager it uses. But you can use a great number of different DEs/WMs in most distributions. So even in ubuntu, you don't have to stick with gnome, you can try using xfce, lxde, fluxbox, icewm etc and see which one you like better. Or find a distribution that runs one of them by default.

Denji · 12-15-2009, 11:59 AM

I will make this very clear.

I want to avoid Ubuntu. Completely. Please stop suggesting Ubuntu. Thank you. :V

AutoBot · 12-15-2009, 12:15 PM

I wasn't suggesting Ubuntu, I was saying that it has good hardware detection. I suggested puppy.

gapan · 12-15-2009, 02:44 PM

And I didn't suggest ubuntu, I said that you can find what you're looking for in almost any distribution. That includes ubuntu, debian, fedora, slackware, mandriva etc...

Denji · 12-15-2009, 02:54 PM

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Originally Posted by gapan

And I didn't suggest ubuntu, I said that you can find what you're looking for in almost any distribution. That includes ubuntu, debian, fedora, slackware, mandriva etc...

No offense but you are horribly unhelpful.

unSpawn · 12-15-2009, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Denji

EDIT: Found a much nicer forum with people willing to assist unlike those who I have ran into here. Much more helpful. This topic is useless now.

You haven't even waited for twentyfour hours before concluding that LQ, which ranks as quite good I think, does not suit your taste based on just a few posts. That is your choice (even if it indicates you have a problem with being patient). Removing your OP (original post) content however is not helpful. Please do not do that again. Thread closed.