Based on a number of linux laptops and also MAC's and Linux on Macs, I would leave OSX on a mac, it is very unix, I mean the networking is just smb.conf editing. As for linux on Intel laptops, I would choose a different distro to FC2 as Fedora have chosen to play safe and not add a lot of features that make laptop linux workable. Unfortunately the best desktop linuxes all seem to based on Debian, (probably due to the supurb detection routines they can get from Knoppix but if you can live with that you will have a lot less hassle than FC2 will give you. I do linux desktops here and on average I can configure most distros in an hour, some take hours, but FC 2 takes days to get all the hardware and software working. Especially when it comes to wireless and network file sharing with windows and mac desktops. But again, that could be attributed to my lack of keeping up to date (excuse the pun) with FC2 as I spent a while in slackware, and got used to using tools that are not in FC2. however debian distros seem to be even easier. Mepis, Yoper and PC linux OS (a mandrake fork) seem to be the easiest to install and get running. I think mepis has the best hardware support, but PC linux OS has nvidia detection and driver installation from boot. Yoper of course is only for newer laptops, so I have not had too much experience with the wireless, but it seems harder than the previous 2 versions. Bill Rosoman wrote:
--- Oliver Jones <oliver(a)deeper.co.nz> wrote:
I would certainly be very tempted to get a Mac if I couldn't find a decent laptop to run Linux well. My business partner is trying to run FC2 on a Dell D800 and having "issues". I want a Laptop but don't want "issues". And I most certainly do _not_ want a Windows laptop. An Apple at least would be a Unix box. I could run lots of Unix apps..
I am running Linux on my Notepad a Dell Insprion 2650 OK, just a couple of "issues" but would seem that most computers/Users have "issues" of some sort or not.