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Simplicity Linux looks good. Earlier today in another thread I said I'd install dyne:bolic, but I've changed my mind. One reason, Simplicity Linux has a netbook edition, and is pretty (I like my Linux pretty as well as functional).

Have a look, in the meantime I'll be installing.

Well, that was an epic fail. The installer sucks the big one. I love it when I set up 3 partitions (because the INSTALLER wants me to first); / (root), /swap, and /home, and it gives me the option of installing to either / (root) or /home (sda1 OR sda3, and not both). It also, even though it had it to do it, would not let me format reiserfs on any of the partitions - it grayed the option out soon as I deleted the partitions I had from the previous installation. It is so easy for a distro to add support for reiserfs, that it makes me sick when it doesn't, and I want nothing to do with it. Seriously, these days, supporting reiserfs is the lazy man's distro.

Next? Anyone got anything that would work with unetbootin that would go on a netbook? I've found one distro so far that will, ONE, and it's a canonical P.O.S. in the end with the "we'll hose your desktop with MATE" trip. This is major suck-@ss. I don't have time to install Arch. I just don't. It's late, and I have to get ready to leave home for two weeks early in the morning.

Distros so far that have NOT worked:
Mandriva 2011
Fedora 16
Puppy Linux
Simplicity Linux
Ubuntu
Open SuSe
Windows 7
And I know there's three others that I can't think of offhand 'cause I'm so tired.

I just want something that isn't a windows mind-meld, doesn't take 3 doggone days to install, isn't mac, isn't canonical, and effing works on the netbook. Is that too much to ask? Evidently so. :p

Try Mandriva 2012 tech review download the i586.DVD.iso That might work! It comes with Gnome3 too.

2011 was already a bust. ^^

Yes in terms of upgrade it was. In terms of a fresh install I think 2012 might be more compatible with HW. You might be surprised. No Guarantees but maybe worth a shot.
Edit forgot about the sound problem -You can't have that

I clean installed 2011 several times over, and it never worked. Don't think I'm going there again. I had screwed X, I don't need the surprise of screwed sound on top of it. For now, I've gone back to Mint, but am looking for something else. Haven't tried dyne:bolic yet, but found a couple of things that said it may not work, either.