Will Linux work on my laptop?

[XTC46]

check and see if your school offers any discounts. My school participates in MSDN so I get all MS software (except office) for free becasue Im in the ICS program, maybe they have something like that for Linux? or atleast they can get you a discount maybe. but Id check the linux forums like suggested above, they well be able to answer all your questions.

[Tekron-X]

My school does not use linux. Everything is tought on windows. And maybe one course uses unix.

[XTC46]

Alot of places still give educational discounts, and just becasue all you see is windows doesnt mean that they dont use other stuff. If all their servers are on windows your school is probably in a bit of trouble...but thats a different topic.

[gore]

SUSE allows Students a discount, go too the SUSE website in my sig and look around.

[Tekron-X]

From my knowledge the only system in the school that does not use Windows is the computer science departments main server that is both a webserver and file server. That uses Unix.

Thanks alot for your help I will look into it some more and I will ask more questions once I get things sorted out. I have been messing about with Slax-live. Only problem with that is that it does not support all hardware on my laptop and I can't get it to connect to the internet

[fyrewall]

www.linuxiso.org, I personally like Slackware linux but get whatever distro you want from there

[Morvai]

You could also try to boot your laptop with a Knoppix cd. That way you can check to see which parts of your laptop will and which parts won't work and find drivers for them before your make your switch completely.