[ubuntu-uk] Distro hopping / Laptop running hot

[Ted Wager]

On Sat, 2011-01-08 at 21:22 +0000, Steve Fisher wrote:
> My laptop is running hot so I have spent the last couple of weeks
> distro-hopping on my new Dell Inspiron N5010 laptop to have a look at
> the competition:
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> Mandriva - I am a refugee from Mandriva, looking bad over on the
> forums, hardly any one there!  Worked well, hardware recognised (and I
> know what I am doing!)
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> Fedora - didn't like it, could fry an egg on my trackpad!
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> PCLinuxOS - Forum full of rabid fan boys, it didn't work well at all.
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> Linux Mint Debian - very, very impressed!  Probably going to stick
> with this on the laptop.  Rolling distro, attractive and the forums
> are friendly and helpful.  Cpufreq didn't run out of the box and the
> Debian methods of doing things are not as straight forward as Ubuntu,
> but it just feels right.  Still got a huge learning curve, moving from
> a RPM based distro to a DEB based.  But very impressed.
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> 
> So I now have 4 machines on 4 different distros!!
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> Have I missed any distro worth investigating?
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> Had to really throttle back my core i5 processor to stop it running
> too hot, going to take it to bits in them morning to check the fans
> and the seating of the heatsink as the machine was knocked over by the
> dog a couple of weeks ago.
> 
> 
> Steve
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> 
Having tried the majority of distro's on Distrowatch I find Zorin takes
a lot of beating..Ideal for beginners and of course geeks will know how
to customise it to their own liking..
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Regards
  Ted Wager
      Using Zorin Linux