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Easy_Rider":1646jxdp said:perry":1646jxdp said:At worst it'll cost you a disc to try a live cd of a distro that takes your fancy .
and a couple of hours of wasted time :roll:
Went for Ubuntu in the end, but the laptop screen just goes blank when switching to the GUI, and i've tried the safe graphics mode too. If there is no "quick fix" then i'll just dump Ubuntu (bit annoying cuz i have 10gb monthly limit and that was 0.7gb wasted :roll: )
Welcome to Linux.... it's why it's still never kicked of in a big way.
(been using it since near the start, building slackware setups and having to compile the kernel to get it to work, lol. luckily (or not) we are a long way from that now).
the other one to try is fedora (aka RedHat)
http://fedoraproject.org/
and Mandriva
http://www2.mandriva.com/
RedHat was the first big one, then Mandriva (under it's old name) took the limelight making it easy to use, the Ubuntu has taken over them both in the recent years....
Hard to tell you a quick fix, need make/model of laptop.
You can order the Linux DVD/CD for free or for postage most of the time though to save you limit.