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It seems that many lubuntu users are owners of laptop it would be awesome if there was a distro with sensible defaults for laptop users out-of-the-box. I know there is lubuntu netbook, but I can't say I noticed any real difference between the two off-hand, other than the way it looks (I use lubuntu desktop on my netbook)...

Is there a specific reason why there isn't one or is it just the way things have gone?

If it is the latter, how hard would it be so form a collective for the cause, with something like that?

Lots of questions I know, but none of them make sense separately.

Reason for asking:

A laptop distro could come with battery energy saving defaults driver settings and gui to configure touchpads as standard but a desktop setup having these would be added bulk which is not what lubuntu is about.

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Are you saying the current defaults are not sensible? – mikewhatever Jul 25 '12 at 21:48
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What is missing? do you have wireless, does it show the battery status, does the back-light work, does the laptop sleep when you close the lid, and wake up when you open it. Does your laptop have bluetooth? – mateo Jul 25 '12 at 21:54
@mikewhatever: I'm saying the current defaults are sensible for a desktop. A laptop needs certain settings from the offset that are different to desktop settings – Magpie Jul 26 '12 at 0:13
and mateo_salta, it does have those things, because I tweaked it to get them. Apart from the backlight actually; samsung voria took my internet offline when I upgraded to 12.04 so I had to uninstall => no backlight. Not sure about bluetooth, as I don't really use it. – Magpie Jul 26 '12 at 0:13

closed as not constructive by mikewhatever, izx, jokerdino♦, Jorge Castro, htorque Aug 18 '12 at 6:45

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