What's the best distro for my netbook?

[Smokey]

What is the best linux distro to slap on my HP Mini 110-3030NR netbook? I'm looking to wipe Windows 7 Starter from it since it's just too slow and laggy. What would be the best distro to use in it's place? I feel Ubuntu now is a bit too heavy for it. So i'm looking for something light....really light that'll make my 1GB 1.66ghz atom processor netbook run really snappy.

[Jesi]

I would use XFCE/Xubuntu or Lubuntu- something like that.

If you wont be needed to retain OS settings I would even suggest running Puppy or DSLinux, loading into RAM. You can still use your HD fore media and secondary program storage.

If that's going to far, use an older version of Ubuntu, Mint or Debian that still uses GNOME2.

[dbp]

Ubuntu runs perfect on my acer aspire one with an atom processor even when it had 1gb of ram. Why do you assume it would have trouble with it? Not like you're going to have videos open in a browser window, be burning dvds in another window, and editing 5 10 megapixel photos in another window at the same time on your little netbook.

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[grim76]

I have been running the xfce version of Fedora with no issues on my netbook.

[Smokey]

I think i'll give Xubuntu a try and see how it works. If not maybe try the XFCE versions of Mint and/or Fedora before slapping Puppy Linux on it and forgetting about it :P

[Jamsers]

I've got an Aspire 522 with a 1 Ghz processor and 1 Gb of memory, and Ubuntu 10.04 runs perfectly fine on it. You might prefer Ubuntu over the other distributions because there tends to be better support for it, and it mostly "just works", but that's up to you. If that's a bit too old for your taste you could try Ubuntu 10.10. Anything beyond that is quite slow on my netbook, I assume because of Unity.

Sorry, but I'm not really familiar with other distributions. You could try Fedora but getting hardware to work there will take a bit more effort because of their policy of free software only, and a lot of netbooks need proprietary drivers to run correctly.

[Rob]

Throw a couple on there.. or you could try 3-4 and go back to the one that runs the best on it..

[Oracio]

What is the best linux distro to slap on my HP Mini 110-3030NR netbook? I'm looking to wipe Windows 7 Starter from it since it's just too slow and laggy. What would be the best distro to use in it's place? I feel Ubuntu now is a bit too heavy for it. So i'm looking for something light....really light that'll make my 1GB 1.66ghz atom processor netbook run really snappy.

Hello, I've tried several distros (Jolicloud, Xubuntu, EasyPeasy, Linuxmint) and nothing works better than Lubuntu, LXDE is best. I have a netbook 1gb packard bell. Try it. It is very fast and uses Chrome.

[kreso93]

What's the difference between Xubuntu and Ubuntu?

[Flutura]

Ubuntu is one of the easier distros to use, but Puppy Linux is great, especially for a netbook. If it can run Windows 7, it can probably run Ubuntu really well. There isn't going to be much of a difference between Xubuntu and Ubuntu on new hardware. Xubuntu just uses a different UI.