Best Distro For Apple Core2 Laptop Circa 2006?

im using the latest version of ubuntu on a 4 year old dell 780 optiplex and I am more than impressed with the speed and agility of the machine. Im so impressed that I have asked my friend for an old dell laptop so I can go mobile with this thing.
my question is.... do i install the same distro for a laptop as i am using on this desktop or is there a widely used laptop distro that the linux experts always use or at least on avarage use more than any other.
thanks guys

Hi guys. I have an old 2006 Macbook. Which distro should I clean install on it?
Someone said you can't use macs for linux. Is this correct?

I was looking into Slackware because a very talented teaching assistant at my school uses Slackware

And when we asked our UNIX professor for a recommendation on distro he recommended Ubuntu, and if we google around for five minutes we all can see that Ubuntu is the most popular distro.

I tried Mint and it was fast, smooth and a sweet pleasure.

I am not worried about screwing things up on my laptop, which already has Windows 8 and some important data, because if something goes wrong and my laptop can't even start, I can run Knoppix in USB stick to log on.

Any important tips for Linux rookies?

I've partioned laptop with a Windows OS before, however it was a newer computer, which was more user friendly. So I did not need much help.

Hello I have a church friend who has an oldish laptop (about 3 years old) with Windows 7. He has mild autism and one of the results is that he doesn't quite understand that there is evil in the world. When he receives spam emails he opens attachments and clicks on all the adds.

He often has to come to me for help with malware removal. And most recently he has managed to mess up his computer beyond my ability to fix.

I am not a linux aficionado but I do use Ubuntu. Given his limited computer uses (E-mail, Internet, and Media Player) it seems like a linux distro would suit him better.

I am looking for something simple that will last for a long time with some or all of the following features. Restrictions on the creation of executable files No updating required User firendly interface with large buttons Web filtering for malitious content
Any advice Would be very helpful thank you.

TL;DR
I need a safe low maintenance user friendly linux setup for a family friend.

Hi
Im a newbie and i have this vaio VGN-nr130fe laptop whit windows vista as OS.
The device got virus infection and i want to clean the memory entirely {the hard disk and ram and stuff like that}{im sure of it and i dont need anything that it contains}.
Need to know wich is the best distro to my laptop and help to install it.
I want to start from zero supposing that i would have a new laptop whit linux in it

Please, it would be awesome

Best regards and all the best for you

Hello Gents,
Ive recently converted to Linux, only problem is, i can't get Linux Mint to download. I go to the BIOS, boot from USB, which has the Distro, i go through the configuration, Laptop does its thing, (looks like a bunch of garble, with being a noob and all) and then finally, i end up with:
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BusyBox v1.21.1 (ubuntu 1:1.21.0-1ubuntu1) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands

(initramfs) [ 37.512065] random: nonblocking pool is initialized

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I had previously installed unbuntu on this laptop alongside Windows 7 a long time ago, but i ended up deleting it because i was having some other issues. for anyone who can help, i can send a picture of whats actually on the screen, since i cant add a photo directly from my hdd. sorry about not making this brief, but tried to explain as much as i much as i could to help you help me. Thank you.

Hi

I'm a telecom/IT contractor and my work laptop died so instead of buying a new one, I decided to give my spare laptop a try. It's a cheap Lenovo G585 with only 2Gb ram and a AMD E1. Needless to say this is a real slow laptop. W8 was preinstalled and barely runs. Even for simple work related tasks its too slow.

Instead of wasting money on it, I am contemplating the idea of installing a Linux distro. I manage via ssh a few linux servers for my customers (centos, red hat, ubuntu server) but actually never used it as my main OS.

I just want something lighter than W8 so the laptop will be faster. Which distro should I get? I was thinking about LXLE but there's too much distros I can't choose.

Speed is the priority in this case. I also like a good looking UI.

Also, how's Microsoft Remote desktop from a Linux client? Is it fast and well optimized?

Thanks!

Am running a P4 @ 2.66 with Hardy Heron 8.04.4 .
Have googled a decent amount of commands for terminal to find out that alone.
Saw posts from 2004&9 that said to use Mysql server or Postgresql server to get the benchmark packages to cook the box.
I am going to try and read everything through commands, then decide on new distro.
1st Mint looks easy enduser. Ubuntu is looking kinda' commercial.
Ubuntu still looks like the distro to follow.
If you want to tell me a package that the synaptic will load and let me use, I thank you. All the us.ubuntu.olderversions. server addresses are worthless.
THX again
Paul

Did it again!

Last week, with help from this forum, I was able to install Linux Mint 17.1 dual boot with Windows 8.1. It worked so well, I decided to explore other Linux distros recommended by forum members as some I wanted to check out.

I was using Unetbootin to download and install these as live sessions on my Windows 8.1 partition.

On my last such download, something went wrong, and no doubt I caused the error, but no clue as to how.

When I opened up this PC, I got the normal dual boot option for Windows and Mint. When I selected Windows, I found an additional dual boot option between it and Unetbootin! Somehow I created a partition (?) on my C Drive for Unetbootin (see Thumbnail below).
This Unetbootin option only goes to a page for me to choose another OS. Further, when I rebooted, the Windows/Mint dual boot option no longer existed, just the Windows/Unetbootin one.

Been checking out various articles and websites about BCD/MBR repair, but nothing definitive (that I can understand) about modifying these to delete the Unetbootin partition and restoring the Windows/linux dual boot.

Naturally, this is a newbie land mine area, so I'm very reluctant to try anything I can't fully understand, which is the category everything I've Googled on this topic falls into.

Anyone know how I can resolve this short of a complete start over
installation based on steps that basically a PC fence post can follow?

TIA
Cheers!