Hey, I was thinking of buying a latitude 410 , which they look great, and I was wondering which distribution of linux do you recommend me to install.  I was thinking of Debian but I do not know if I will encounter any hardware conflict with it. I really do not want to go into much trouble. I 've never installed Linux before, eventhough I have been using Red Hat for six months at the University, along with Sun Solaris.

 

The thing is that, eventhough I 've learnd everything I know today about computers from Microsoft, which I do not have anything against them, I want to go Linux since I am very comfortable with it.

 

But I really, really do not want to fight the hardware since it would require lots of time that I rather spend in doing something else. Microsoft would be the easiest way to go, but I do think that as a customer if I can choose the brand of computer with its memory, hard drives, audio cards and so on, I should be able ALSO to choose the OS, no?

 

I read that many D610 users encountered many problems of compatibiliy, so now I am afraid of making a wrong choice. If it is not possible or extremely difficult to make work the D 410 under Linux Debian, Red Hat or whatever I rather buy an Apple with its new OS Tiger. 

 

Could somebody help me Please? Thank you so much for your understanding.