Best Distro for Inspiron 8500?

spage0506 · 06-25-2005, 04:57 PM

Hey all,
I'm convincing a friend to switch to Linux from Windoze. She's running a Dell Inspiron 8500 Notebook with the nVidia GeForce4 4200 vid card. What's the best linux distro for her hardware?? Is there a good laptop distro out there?
thanks..

stu

ps: i don't care if it's not free

gbonvehi · 06-25-2005, 05:04 PM

Most distributions will work somehow equal since all use the same kernel

However, if you want a "easy" (autodetect hard, etc) I would recommend you something like Ubuntu or Firesight.

PD: You should post this in a more general forum, this is dedicated to Slackware, so posting here will likely to get one answer "Slackware"

spage0506 · 06-25-2005, 05:09 PM

good point, thanks

I appreciate the help, I'll try those.

XavierP · 06-25-2005, 05:30 PM

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