[Lincoln LUG] Distros

[Neal Quincey]

Shouldn't be too painful to try Debian, there is an Ubuntu version of
the XPS13 and if you have a spare hard drive it would be safe to try on
that.

Neal 

On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 14:08 +0100, Dave Briggs wrote:
> Thought it may be a good idea to start up a bit of a holy war :-)
> 
> 
> I've a new laptop on the way and am wanting to put Linux on it and for
> it to become my main machine (leaving my Mac behind...).
> 
> 
> So, distro choice. Ubuntu seems to be the default choice for a lot of
> folk, but I'm not a fan of various things they are doing, including
> the ads in search results, the forcing of Ubuntu One down your throat,
> and so on. Don't personally find Unity that offensive as it happens.
> 
> 
> Other seem to like Mint which seems to take the best bits of Ubuntu
> while stripping out the annoying stuff - am I right?
> 
> 
> I'd really like to give Debian a proper go, but I do worry that it
> won't support the hardware in the laptop (it's a Dell XPS 13) without
> difficulty.
> 
> 
> What are people's thoughts?
> 
> Dave
> 
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