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[Cordelia]

Sometimes I feel with my new laptop I want to dual boot some Linux with it, but I'm not really sure to what distro I should use if I wanted to do that.

Since you're not too experienced, I'd recommend Ubuntu or Mint, tbh.

 

[Alexander Nicholi]

For some reason, Debian-based distros always bothered me. I don't really have experience with other distros, so I wouldn't know what you should get unless you're wanting to run a shell-based web server (in which case I'd recommend CentOS 5 x64). Sorry D:

 

[donavannj]

Fedora was snappier than Ubuntu when I used them for classes, but Ubuntu resembles Windows significantly more than Fedora.

 

[Hiatus]

I always wanted to give Elementary OS a try, but never managed to get past installation. When it came to that, it always gave me a black screen. I asked for help in Ubuntu forums, but none of their suggestions seemed to have worked, though. :( I don't know, my laptop probably just isn't compatible.

 

[Tsutarja]

I opted out of dual-booting for now, to be honest. I don't really think I'd use a Linux install as often as I think I would, and I just don't feel like dealing with partitioning either :p

On the other hand, a hackintosh is something I'd like to try one of these days.

 

[Zet]

A hackintosh would infinitely be better than dual booting linux :P

 

[Hiatus]

I'd try installing Hackintosh, but none of my laptops seem to have what it takes for it, sadly. ): I do have one of those old iBook (well, it's in new condition), though, so thankfully, I'm still able to keep up with the world of Mac. Sort of.

 

[Legendary Silke]

Trying to install Linux natively on a laptop is pretty much asking for lots of research :P

Hackintoshes do not sound too good on a laptop, either.

 

[Alexander Nicholi]

Here's an interesting comparison I found on the three major OSes.

I think I'm in between the Linux and Windows POVs in regard to all three.

 

[Tsutarja]

I've never really even tried a hackintosh before, to be honest, but I've always wanted to haha

Sometimes I wish though that virtual machines could run as smooth as possible, even when it comes to putting in higher specs for them.

 

[Cordelia]

Ugh, be careful with hackintoshes. One mistyped statement and you've wiped your hard drive completely!

 

[Tsutarja]

^ And that right there is why I would try it on a salvaged PC first before anything else :p

I have an old laptop from 2008 lying around in my room I could use haha

 

[Zet]

Well if you're nervous about doing a hackintosh, you can always try it in a VM first.

 

[Tsutarja]

Ugh, why is my USB 3.0 external HDD transferring at 27Mb/s? It's a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1TB model, if anyone's curious. Does Seagate provide USB 3.0 drivers, or is my cable perhaps messed up?

 

[Legendary Silke]

Ugh, why is my USB 3.0 external HDD transferring at 27Mb/s? It's a Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1TB model, if anyone's curious. Does Seagate provide USB 3.0 drivers, or is my cable perhaps messed up?

What cable are you using? (USB 3.0 cables should have the end connecting to the HDD have extra connectors.)

Also, although I've seen my external HDD achieving speeds in excess of 130 MB/s, that's for the best case performance - long sequential read of a single file at the beginning of the disk. How filled is the disk? What are you copying?

 

[Tsutarja]

What cable are you using? (USB 3.0 cables should have the end connecting to the HDD have extra connectors.)

Also, although I've seen my external HDD achieving speeds in excess of 130 MB/s, that's for the best case performance - long sequential read of a single file at the beginning of the disk. How filled is the disk? What are you copying?

I was copying a .vdi file over to my laptop from my desktop for VirtualBox.. and it's about half full as well. Attached is a picture of what the connectors look like.

 

[Legendary Silke]

I was copying a .vdi file over to my laptop from my desktop for VirtualBox.. and it's about half full as well. Attached is a picture of what the connectors look like.

Looks odd. Try unplugging the HDD, and then plug it in again. Perform the same operation again - sometimes, a device might connect as USB 2.0 if the connection on the PC side detects the device before the five extra USB 3.0 pins make contact.

 

[Tsutarja]

Looks odd. Try unplugging the HDD, and then plug it in again. Perform the same operation again - sometimes, a device might connect as USB 2.0 if the connection on the PC side detects the device before the five extra USB 3.0 pins make contact.

I've tried doing that and still so far no luck :/

 

[Meganium]

I'd love to try other Linux distros. :3 Only ones I know atm are Ubuntu, Jolicloud, and Zorin. Zorin seems to be my favorite over Ubuntu, actually...but Ubuntu is like...eye candy. *__*

edit: OK HOW DID I GET TO THIS PAGE WOW.

 

[Tsutarja]

I tried out Ubuntu 13.10 and it's just pretty much full of bloatware at this point. I remember back when I first tried Ubuntu, it was version 8.04, and it didn't have all the bloatware like Amazon stuff when installed from stock, nor did it bother me at all about signing up for an ubuntu.com account.