[wellylug] Linux for portable / laptop

[Stephen Judd]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Stephen Judd <stephen at vital.org.nz> wrote:

> - I replaced Natty on my older Tecra with Debian and the gnome-desktop
> package. The Debian installer asks you if you want suitable packages for
> a laptop. The netbook's using less RAM than Natty and the fan is going
> less. Debian's stock Gnome is ugly looking but everything works. I
> installed NetworkManager and it's a nice little environment now.

For the record, I checked last night, and my minimal Debian Gnome
install clocks in at about 250MB memory used, vs Linux Mint at about
450 MB. Mint gives you lots of nice extras and a beautiful appearance,
but it's interesting how much more you pay for it. Noting what Colin
wrote, I followed up the Phoronix article, and I see the default Mint
setting for PCI-E is "performance" too...