1. Arch linux anyone? Distro choices blah blah.

[dom at latter.org]

Federico Flego wrote:

> Personally I'm strongly biased toward fast, light and simple.

Completely, avoiding bloat is why a lot of us end up here!

> The cons are sometimes you need to spend time to 'know' your system a 
> little bit more... Therefore special effects are banned :) and I want my 
> hardware to last 10 years, not 3 just because each time a new OS is on 

I think my oldest "running" computer - the "kitchen radio" is about
ten years old.

> Regarding the hardware compatibility, most of  the drivers are in the 
> kernel, especially for old machines. Although not all distributions are 
> sync with the latest kernel version, you probably don't need it. The 

For old laptops using the intel video driver, this has been a *major* issue.