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Originally Posted by cascade9
I generally chnage back to boot from HDD as soon as the OS is installed and running. Its a 30-60 second job at wost once you know what you are doing.
BTW, its BIOS (Basic Input Output System) not BIO's.
Why mint or debian for a laptop in particular?
Debian 'stable' is a bit older than a lot of other distros, and most of the *buntu/mint versions. It can require more stuffing around (eg backporting a kernel and xorg) to get going with current laptops than *buntu or mint. Debian testing/sid is far more current, and wont need backporting kernels/xorg to work with most new laptops..but then you've got a lot more system upkeep to do and more chance of breaking the system.
Personally, I avoid laptops. I dont have much use for them, they are more likely to give you issues, arent anywhere near as upgradeable, etc.. If I was going to get a laptop, it would be something very simple, fairly small and low power, like a intel atom or AMD fusion netbook.
They made some nice machines in the past, and still do OK hardware, but Aleinware is just a dell brand now. Dell hardware in a 'funky' case with an inflated pricetag.
They are also more likely then the other big brands to be using the newest nVidia mobile GPUs, which can be a pain to get going with linux.
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Why Mint or Debian you ask...
I wouldn't want to stray to far from the familiarity of the aspects of Ubuntu; as this is for now the realm of my comfort zone. Until I learn and research more about the other distributions and their solid capabilities/performance I'm more than likely going to be skittish to consider anything else.
Thank you for the correction: BIOS and not with the apostrophe-
I didn't realize that laptops could give as many issue's as you have mentioned and the fact that they are not as upgradable isn't very pleasing to hear-
I'll continue my investigation and obseravtions into all of the different distro's over the next few weeks.
I have to say that I did like Mint 12 KDE when I ran from the ISO I burned- I found it to be a smooth distro.
I've had some graphic and program crashes with Ubuntu and as an Artist I can not have confusion nor graphics that don't comply or run in low graphics mode after an upgrade. As you could imagine this can be both embarrassing and exasperating in front of a potential client-
Didn't know that Alienware was indeed Dells work.
I look forward to a new distro that I can smile about-
