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Picking a distro for my netbook.

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RyanGreener

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Hello everyone. I'm trying to pick a distro for my new netbook but I'm not sure which one to use. I have the most experience with Ubuntu, (8.04 through 9.10), but Ubuntu seems to stress/kill hard drives from what i've heard, and also on my other laptop the temperatures run 5-10 degC more than in Windows. Although the temps are under 60 degC, it still bothers me because I've read so much about excessive load cycles. If anyone could give me a fix for this problem that would be great but at this point I'm looking for a new distro. It does not have to be super lightweight as most/all Linux distros are lighter than Windows. I plan on using Unetbootin if that means anything. I'm looking for:

1) Stability
2) Useability
3) Good support for proprietary things.
4) Least amount of bugs, or if it has bugs, ones that would not effect a normal netbook user (internet, skype, basics)
5) Boot up time is not a priority.
 
Ubuntu works fine on my Eee900. I'm using 8.04 currently. This April I'll either go to 10.04 or Debian. I haven't decided yet.
 
I've been wanting to try out Debian but I enjoy the out-of-the-box hardware support of Ubuntu. I've been thinking of trying out openSUSE or Ubuntu LTS, but something tells me that Ubuntu's bugs/problems have not been fully fixed.
 
What hardware is in your netbook? Debian should work with the vast majority of hardware that Ubuntu does. There's some stuff that you might need an extra package for (i.e. firmware, non-free nVidia drivers, etc) but that's about it.
 
azemsiB said:
I've been wanting to try out Debian but I enjoy the out-of-the-box hardware support of Ubuntu. I've been thinking of trying out openSUSE or Ubuntu LTS, but something tells me that Ubuntu's bugs/problems have not been fully fixed.
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Not sure what bugs you've seen but I've been running 2 netbooks flawlessly for months now with Ubuntu.. My wife loves hers, I like mine too, does seem a bit booged down at times though..
 
I would recommend Xubuntu, but I couldn't get it to play nice on my eee PC. Weird issue with grub, where it would ignore the menu and go straight to the last OS booted.
 
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