[ltp] Best Linux distro for ThinkPad T61...

[Richard Neill]

Petar Milin wrote:
> Hello!
> Please, give me advice for the best Linux distro for my ThinkPad T61 
> (with nVidia): the most stable and, if possible, the most out-of-the-box.

Well, Ubuntu 9.04 is pretty good; I also like Mandriva.

Most distros come on a live-cd now, so you can play with a few and see 
what you like. (note that you may not get the proprietary driver 
supported until you install; also you can change from KDE<->Gnome very 
easily once the system is installed.)

If you want something simple, pick a common distro 
(Ubuntu,Mandriva,Suse,Fedora,Debian,Gentoo) as you are more likely to 
find someone here (or threads on google) who can support it.

Best wishes,

Richard



P.S. If you want to use KDE 3.5, it's still there, but only with Debian.
My personal thoughts are that KDE 4.x still isn't really ready so I'm 
using Gnome on new installs for friends, and I've held my own 
desktop/laptop back to last year's distros - Mandriva 2009.0 and Ubuntu 
Hardy until KDE 4.3 appears. XFCE is also becoming rather a good 
lightweight option.


P.P.S. If you don't play 3D games, you may well find that the vesa or nv 
driver is quite adequate for you, and it will save you some proprietary 
troubles. Nouveau isn't ready yet.