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Hi,

I'm after a quick booting Linux distro for a friend's 3yr old laptop (Acer Aspire 4530).

 

I've fresh installed Windows and it boots in 1min or so but one of these fabled 10-second boots would be great as a partner OS.

 

It needs to be easy, allow access to the Internet, possibly Skype, access to Windows partition to listen to music upload photos to facebook.

 

I'm not a Linux geek and I've no intention on learning, faffing about with drivers, so it must work out of the box!

 

XPud and PrestoMyPC ($20) look promising but don't work on this hardware.

 

Splashtop also looks easy but doesn't allow local drive access.

 

Is there a dream distro out there for me?

Thanks.

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