I'd recommend Mint - Ubuntu with a shiny finish (and in 11 running Gnome
2). The only thing I'm not sure about is encrypting home dir (but I'm
pretty certain you can).
Cheers
Bryn
On 29/10/11 00:58, Imran Chaudhry wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a good Linux distro that meets the following
> requirements:
>
> * must work easily with a Huwei 3G dongle
> * Gnome 2.x
> * easy to set-up encrypted home dir
> * makes good use of a modern laptop (eg. usable webcam)
>
> I have been living with Ubunty 11.10 & Unity for the last two weeks
> and while it has eye-candy, usability and much promise, I found it
> hard to be efficient with it compared to Gnome 2 (especially where one
> has multiple terminal windows). My conclusion is that it is not suited
> for technical users. One can login with "Gnome Classic" but for some
> reason the menu and icons look rather odd and I did not have the
> patience to fix it. I really hope 12.04 maintains Gnome 2.x as 10.04.
> I did try Gnome 3 but discarded it as it was not as "obvious" to use
> as the alternatives.
>
> Right now I'm using Windows 7 dual-boot. My next steps were trying
> Debian Squeeze (simple and does the job, not flashy, I have concerns
> of older drivers and software here and not getting the most out of the
> hardware). Arch Linux looks interesting also.
>
> The laptop is a Dell Latitude E6410.
>
> While I am here, has anyone done a dual-boot Windows and Linux with
> encrypted home dir or partition on both? I want to use Truecrypt for
> Windows but this would overwrite grub and I found one blog post
> describing a workaround with some hairy commands.
>
> thanks!
>
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