Thinkpad X120e and Linux

[Brian10161]

Hey guys,

Was wondering what distributions people are running on their X120e's (Or X100's). I can't get one to work properly and do what I want. I got Fedora 15 to run and work with wifi + bluetooth, I just didn't like how "simple" the new GNOME shell is. I'm running 14 on my T400s and it works perfectly.

I put Debian on my X40 and it worked great, but now am running Crunchbang on it for resource conservation.

I have tried,

Ubuntu 11.04, Fedora 14/15, Linux Mint, SLAX, Slackware and a bunch of others on my X120e, but just can't find a distro that works out of the box (I'm quite the newb when it comes to the terminal and stuff).

So, just looking for other ideas to try and ones that have decent support for the new AMD platform APU thing

Thanks!

[Mike42]

I got Fedora 15 to run and work with wifi + bluetooth, I just didn't like how "simple" the new GNOME shell is.

You don’t have to use Gnome on Fedora. You can use what ever you like, be it XFCE, KDE, Fluxbox/Openbox etc.

In my opinion there is not much difference between the „big“ Distros like Ubuntu, Fedora, openSuse or Debian (okay, Ubuntu got the unique Unity, but since many people don’t like it you’d probably don’t want to use it anyway). The main difference is in the default set of programs and how they are configured.

Thus I’d recommend to keep one distro and configure it as you like and get used to it. As far as I know any recent distro should work well on the x120e.

[sportfreak]

my buddy from the dojo, has a x120e .. and he installed ubuntu 11.10 in it .. and obviously not-using-unity of course ..
it was pretty out-of-box, brand new install (not upgraded), and just did the update all packages ..

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

I also noticed aptitude is not being installed as a default package .. so i suggest you install aptitude as well, for more control in searching for packages over command line ..

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sudo apt-get install aptitude

Hope that helps!!