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Most user-friendly (and speediest) Linux flavour for a netbook

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Mar 15, 2026879 views
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I'm interested in some feedback for the most user friendly but also speediest (speed matters more over user friendly) flavours of Unix that work best with netbooks, namely an Acer one. I need one that doesn't require recompilation to get wifi working (ubuntu), and flash works too. I'm using Windows…

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Fix for: Most user-friendly (and speediest) Linux flavour for a netbook

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Ubuntu Netbook Remix is an Ubuntu variant customized specifically for netbooks. On some netbooks, bug 349314 makes the launcher slow, but that bug report has links to kernel versions which do not have the problem. Other than that, it works great.

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