I'm NewBie...
 

Ya Hi, I'm Skyrocket...I'm very interested in Linux, but somehow i do not know which Linux distribution is suitable for my laptop, currently i'm using Windows 7. I found this forum through Google.com. I hope anyone in this forum could help me recommend which distribution of Linux suitable for me..Thamk You.

p/s: Don't know which one to choose actually, RedHat? Ubuntu? Suse? etc..??

...and the Make and Model of your laptop is...?

...Suitable for what...?

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/914191/stora...0-%20Color.svg

I found this while in searching for the right distro for my acer aspire 4750g laptop. Linux Mint, Mandriva, Ubuntu, openSuse seems suitable enough for laptop(i guess). Haven't try any of them yet.

Acer Aspire 4750G
Suitable for NewBie..hehehe

Fedora is good for beginners

What about Ubuntu?

also i think, there are many people who use Ubuntu, so it has a good support :p

Currently none of the Linux distributions is really suited to run without any problems on your machine. NVidia currently doesn't support Optimus on Linux, there will be unofficial support in the next kernel version.

If you want to try it, some newbie friendly distributions are Mint, Mepis, Zorin OS and PCLinuxOS.

I'm planning to use Windows 7 and Linux for my laptop. Aren't PCLinuxOS will erase my windows 7? i need W7 because my work required W7. but at the same time I want to learn Linux OS.

You can install every Linux alongside Windows. It would be much easier for you to use a virtual machine, like Virtualbox, in Windows and install Linux to that. That way you can try different distributions without fiddling with your partitions or endanger your Windows installation, and you will also not have that Optimus problem.

On a different part of LQ, people told me that Fedora/Ubuntu/... would be the best place to start (even for double booting)
i have a laptop with W7 and i want also a linux OS for learning linux (but didn't had the time for implementing that) and they suggested Fedora/Ubuntu

True, at school we used VirtualBox or VMWare Player, both worked really fine on W7/Vista ;-)
We had like 8GB ram memory, but at some times we had like 3 VirtualBoxs (2Gb each) running next to eachother, and those PC's were still working perfect ^^

Thanks TobiSGD, Virtualbox, heard that name for the first time :), i will try using VirtualBox.
Fedora or Ubuntu, I might go for Ubuntu first and then Fedora, Thank you Brownie_Cookie..

I appreciate very much for information given.

p/s: I start crawling into Linux world...he3

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Thanks TobiSGD, Virtualbox, heard that name for the first time :), i will try using VirtualBox.
Fedora or Ubuntu, I might go for Ubuntu first and then Fedora, Thank you Brownie_Cookie..

I appreciate very much for information given.

p/s: I start crawling into Linux world...he3

I also strongly recommand VirtualBox. You can use it to play around with Linux risk-free until you decide you really like it and want to install it.

Also, if you want to learn a bit about how Linux works inside and how to use the comamnd line, here's a nice tutorial: http://linuxcommand.org/

VirtualBox and VMWare Player do have the same objectives, no?
both virtualization software
i rather use VB to instead of VMWare, but i don't see why the one is better than the other :p