Brand new to the forums, just bought a 770 for a great price off ebay. I'd like to install/flash as easy as possible, so I thought I'd reinstall/try Linux one more time. I had a dual boot of Mepis ans Windows running for awhile but never really used the Linux often enough to get the hang of it. But now with the 770 being Linux based it only makes sense to use the OS it's designed with. So to my question, which Linux version is the most compatible with the 770? Just want to make this as easy on me as I can. Thanks for any suggestions etc.

Clinton

You can use any desktop distribution really. But as a newbie you better stick with the Ubuntu based ones (Ubuntu,Kubuntu,Xubuntu,Linux Mint) or OpenSuse. Linux mint is especially aimed at working straight out-of-the-box without too much tweaking and configuring.

Thanks for that. Tried Ubuntu a few years ago, it was ok Mepis worked easier for me though. Is there any benifit in using Ubuntu over Mepis or will either work as well as the other. Thanks again.

No, it doesn't matter.

For flashing your tablet it doesn't really matter what you choose. But the advantage of popular distros like Ubuntu are the newbie-friendlyness and large communities, so chances that you find anwers for problems are bigger in their forums. Also popular distros tend to have bigger repositories. That means you don't need to install untrusted binaries and possibly break something.

You also can use a live CD if you don't need the linux install for anything else.

Good idea! But why just get a distro like knoppix then? I prefer DSL and Puppy Linux because of its relatively small footprint. I used to play nethack off my DSL live cd, it was the most fun thing for a week lol

If your not to interested in using linux as your main OS, just make sure you got enough ram or a flash drive to put the flasher on, so you can just use any live cd w/ it.

Thanks again guys for all the options. I downloaded the latest Mepis this mornig, i'm going to give that a go for right now. I've been meaning to install Linux again and try it out, would really like to get rid of Windows but some apps that I use aren't/weren't supported last time I installed. Ubuntu didn't like (could not install) the wireless card in my Dell laptop (main computer) but Mepis installed and ran without issue, that's the reason for not going with Ubuntu.

Clinton

You can run Windows apps in Linux using Wine, or using virtualization like Virtualbox (recommend), VMWare or KVM.

I run both on different systems - and of the 2 mentioned (Ubuntu & Mepis) Mepis is the superior distro. IMHO

Ubuntu tends toward bleeding edge - while Mepis is solid.

They are both Debian based - and will both run as live CD's - and these are CD's - not the DVD that Knoppix requires. (another Debian based distro)