[cL1kz0r]

Hey guys , I have a Acer AOD270 laying around in my house somewhere , which still got a shitty Win 7 Ult which always hangs at multitasking or even at Browsing sometimes..

So I was looking for a solid linux distro , as I said , I dont use it but I want to set it up in case other members of my fam need it sometimes so they have a good experience..

Here are some of my likings and blacklisted distros :
First up : Specs - 2 GB Ram , Intel Atom N2600 1.6 Ghz 4 CPUs , 320 GiG HDD , Intel GMA 3600.

Denied Already : Tried Ubuntu , both LTS and X.10 , LTS , although stable is a battery eater , 2 hours and bam , 0 battery , and X.10 version is very laggy , uses too much RAM , same problem as Win 7.

Puppy/Other minimal : Overrrated shit.. its for Pentiums .. I want a nice feature packed distro with fair looks that wont lag much..

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So What do you guys recommend? Fedora? Joli? Or something else

[Slarek]

Debian could be the choice. It' very lightweight.
Also Ubuntu 12.04 is a good choice.

[cL1kz0r]

Debian could be the choice. It' very lightweight.
Also Ubuntu 12.04 is a good choice.

Debian.. will try ,

Ubuntu , as I already said eats chunks of my batter(possibly due to background tasks) Although Ubuntu is perfect for everyone in my fam.. Libre , Gimp etc but sitting near power supply is a pain ___

[The Real Slim Shady]

I would try a lightweight Ubuntu like Xubuntu or Lubuntu. I still get ~2 hours on my 4-5 year old Toshiba 15.6" laptop with Xubuntu. But ya i would also go through and disable any unnecessary background processes that could be draining the battery.

Just out of curiousity what is your expected battery life? Im not really a netbook person but those that i know with them didnt seem to get much more than 3 hours at best on them? And that was running windows...

[cL1kz0r]

I would try a lightweight Ubuntu like Xubuntu or Lubuntu. I still get ~2 hours on my 4-5 year old Toshiba 15.6" laptop with Xubuntu. But ya i would also go through and disable any unnecessary background processes that could be draining the battery.

Just out of curiousity what is your expected battery life? Im not really a netbook person but those that i know with them didnt seem to get much more than 3 hours at best on them? And that was running windows...

Strange , My Win 7 with Lowest brightness used to be fine for 6-7 hours when only network tasks are present (like a ongoing torrent)

And atleast 3-4 when in gaming mode..

Although acer promised much more but maybe cuz I trashed their shitty Win 7 Starter

[Interl0per]

I'm using Mint 13 KDE (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS), give that a shot. KDE has a netbook mode which I use on mine, as for your battery issues, netbook batteries are usually around 2200mAh which is half of a typical laptop battery. However, replacement higher capacity batteries for netbooks are a lot cheaper than laptop replacements, so have a look at replacement higher spec batteries. You will usually get 5400, 6600 and even 7800mAh replacements for notebooks.

Also regarding 'lightweight' desktops, after lots of experimentation, I have seen very little difference with 'lighter weight' DE's compared with a few of the more modern ones, KDE is very efficient these days and whilst I don't like Gnome 3, it's not too bad either. I don't think you will see much difference to be honest. Best just to get a bigger battery.

[Interl0per]

I'm using Mint 13 KDE (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS), give that a shot. KDE has a netbook mode which I use on mine, as for your battery issues, netbook batteries are usually around 2200mAh which is half of a typical laptop battery. However, replacement higher capacity batteries for netbooks are a lot cheaper than laptop replacements, so have a look at replacement higher spec batteries. You will usually get 5400, 6600 and even 7800mAh replacements for notebooks.

Also regarding 'lightweight' desktops, after lots of experimentation, I have seen very little difference with 'lighter weight' DE's compared with a few of the more modern ones, KDE is very efficient these days and whilst I don't like Gnome 3, it's not too bad either. I don't think you will see much difference to be honest. Best just to get a bigger battery.

[Interl0per]

I'm using Mint 13 KDE (Ubuntu 12.04 LTS), give that a shot. KDE has a netbook mode which I use on mine, as for your battery issues, netbook batteries are usually around 2200mAh which is half of a typical laptop battery. However, replacement higher capacity batteries for netbooks are a lot cheaper than laptop replacements, so have a look at replacement higher spec batteries. You will usually get 5400, 6600 and even 7800mAh replacements for notebooks.

Also regarding 'lightweight' desktops, after lots of experimentation, I have seen very little difference with 'lighter weight' DE's compared with a few of the more modern ones, KDE is very efficient these days and whilst I don't like Gnome 3, it's not too bad either. I don't think you will see much difference to be honest. Best just to get a bigger battery.

[dR.0xYw0Rm]

I would suggest you to use Crunchbang Linux 10 which is based on Debian. It uses the Openbox window manager, which is one of the least resource-heavy there is, and helps the operating system boot in just over 30 seconds. It will run in 128MB of RAM, but 256MB is recommended. It is very light and fast, but requires some computing knowledge if you want to go beyond the default apps.

[dR.0xYw0Rm]

I would suggest you to use Crunchbang Linux 10 which is based on Debian. It uses the Openbox window manager, which is one of the least resource-heavy there is, and helps the operating system boot in just over 30 seconds. It will run in 128MB of RAM, but 256MB is recommended. It is very light and fast, but requires some computing knowledge if you want to go beyond the default apps.