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Which Linux distribution would be the best for an acer laptop from the perspective of ease of use drivers support and packages for development fedora freespire or pclinuxos?
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Freespire is arguably the easiest one to install packages on, though I dislike certain aspects of "CNR." It also allows (or did allow) the easy installation of proprietary drivers, which most distributions do not include by default. PCLinuxOS has an all-around nicer interface, and better tools for configuring the system. Fedora is more traditional, and styled similarly to Red Hat Linux. Though I seldom find any distro "difficult" to use, Fedora, is probably not the best choice for a novice user.
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