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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