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‎12-29-2018 10:15 AM

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Product: HP Pavilion dv2-1010eo
Operating System: Linux

I gave my mother a laptop in Christmas and took old Pavilion dv2 out of her hands. I'm planning to install a Linux on it in order to squeeze some more mileage out of it. But I'm worried about compatibility. Can I expect Linux and drivers available to it to work on this laptop? I know from experience that only HP's own drivers for Windows work on Pavilion dv7.

 

Pavilion dv2-1010eo (at least this one) has:

Athlon Neo 1,6 GHz

2 GB of RAM

Radeon X1270

1280*800 (screen resolution)

138 GB of hard disk space

Camera

Windows Vista

 

I plan to wipe HDD and install Gentoo Linux (I have previous experience about it) or one of the Arch Linux. You can recommend me more suitable distro if you know one.

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‎12-29-2018 10:58 AM

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@Matti_Kuokkanen wrote:

I gave my mother a laptop in Christmas and took old Pavilion dv2 out of her hands. I'm planning to install a Linux on it in order to squeeze some more mileage out of it. But I'm worried about compatibility. Can I expect Linux and drivers available to it to work on this laptop? I know from experience that only HP's own drivers for Windows work on Pavilion dv7.

 

Pavilion dv2-1010eo (at least this one) has:

Athlon Neo 1,6 GHz

2 GB of RAM

Radeon X1270

1280*800 (screen resolution)

138 GB of hard disk space

Camera

Windows Vista

 

I plan to wipe HDD and install Gentoo Linux (I have previous experience about it) or one of the Arch Linux. You can recommend me more suitable distro if you know one.

Hi,

I would recommend Manjaro linux. It's based on Arch linux and currently the top at the distrowatch website. I installed it on my ProBook and everything except wifi worked out of the box but that was quickly sorted after installing the right drivers. If you fancy Gentoo have a look at Sabayon linux. Of course Debian or Debian based distros are also an option with 5 of them just behind Manjaro. Manjaro comes with Xfce as the desktop environment which is lightweight and works well even on poor specs systems. Distributions coming with LXDE, Xfce or LXQt is what you should look for.

Asus ROG STRIX G16 Manjaro Xfce
HP Touchpad provided by HP
HP Microserver Gen8 10TB Debian Server

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