Thread: Linux and SSD with an ultra-Book

Depending on what you want to do with the laptop, both Arch Linux (XFCE, KDE, Gnome) or X / K / Ubuntu is not a bad choice if you have the SSD when partitioning just be careful that the correct alignment, it can you switch fdisk Size in sectors instead of size cylinders. In addition, a recent ext4 file system such as is used together with the mount option discard if you are your directory and file accesses do not have to have all logs, still offer the mount options "noatime" and "nodiratime" to. I personally use the current Debian testing Wheezy together with Gnome 3 and am very satisfied the Unity of Ubuntu stuff tastes good, not at all "pure" GNOME 3 can be operated without the bells and whistles in my opinion, much faster and better.

Thank you for the detailed answer certainly I knew the tricks of the trade with noatime, nodiratime and discard Ext4 was already the preferred system debian I exclude myself because the packages are often too old. Come to think of Arch or Ubuntu would bring me much better i only use Debian on server systems did I just looked at Gnome3 well again, but somehow looks pretty but somehow a little restless.

With respect, I specifically choose the Debian testing version, which gets nearly daily updates, a kernel and Gnome 3.2er 3 is in the repos in there - that is very topical. For production environments, I would not use this version as well, since I use, as you probably are, the stable the "unstable", however, should be avoided wherever possible, unless you want to get a taste of upcoming features, etc.,

Now before I get the device but I just decided against a Windows partition and equipped the same with a fresh Ubuntu 12.04 it's just so incredibly high performance. Unfortunately, one thing that bothers me with the touchpad, I can not do multi-touch or anything else if you have a Macbook Pro and then the multi-touch is used then it is probably very hard dell has indeed just now .