which linux distro would be the most reliable for school work

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>>57760170
Mint 18: MATE

I have Ubuntu 16.04 32 bit on my acer aspire 1. Its pretty damn good, I like it.

Arch. Next question

I don't know what the hell demon is but it belongs in the trash

>>57760170
Remix

>>57760170
>hp stream

Ok heres the thing, some of these laptops have some abnormal hardware configurations. Ubuntu or Mint might be your best bet with getting stuff working properly, OpenSuse might work good too. Avoid debian, shit's too old.

I'm not 100% but it might have to do with the system-on-a-chip design the streams seem to have (some kind of AMD E2 processor). I've had wonky audio.

You can sometimes fit a thin (9.6mm?) optical-hdd adapter bay thing in there to plug in an SSD through the slimline sata port. Leave the windows 10 on the eMMC, it might come in handy (also its 16 or 32GB anyways can't do shit with that).

There are better laptops for the same price or less on ebay why would you use this?

Just get ubuntu and preferably not a hp stream

>>57760170
Mint

>>57760170
Slackware.

I've got the same laptop. I used to run arch but now run xubuntu, both are good for dealing with this piece of shit.

Please keep in mind the wifi drivers are not in mainline, and you need broadcom proprietary drivers to use the wifi, and the Bluetooth is unsupported. For Ubuntu, that's bcmwl-kernel-src package, and on arch it's broadcom-wl-dkms in AUR

>>57760170
If you want it to just work? Ubuntu. Otherwise Debian stable. Takes a little more effort, but I prefer it.

Ubuntu or Mint are probably your best bet if you don't feel like putting in a lot of effort. Manjaro isn't bad either for a "just werks" Arch-based distro.

>>57761412
>Ubuntu
>just work
>Ubuntu 14*: Latest Firefox flags outdated libavcodecs, can't upgrade to new version except through a random repo
>Ubuntu 16*: randomly drops wifi, can't reconnect unless you restart network manager in terminal / reboot your computer

>>57760170

Free BSD

>>57760170

Cent OS

>>57760170

Slackware

>>57760170

Debian with Gnome 2

>>57761982
Welp, I guess it doesn't. I don't use it myself, because I think Ubuntu is shit, but from what I know it's got the most guides and shit to make it easy for a beginner.

I use Debian stable at the moment.

I guess I'd also recommend Solus, but as of right now it's repos are a bit anemic.

So yeah, Debian or Solus.

>>57760170

PuppyOS

>>57760170

Whonix or Tails

>>57760170
Here is a suggestion: Don't do anything on the HP Stream. Fuck that thing and it's uselessness.

>>57760170
Debian 8.6 xfce desktop.

It is a stable software that is very reliable. The only thing is the installation is user-unfriendly so make sure to watch a youtube video on installing debian.

Depends on what DE you want.

Cinnamon: Mint
Unity, XFCE or MATE: Ubuntu, Xubuntu or Ubuntu MATE, respectively. Installing Ubuntu and then installing another DE just adds bloat and random glitches.
KDE (will work like shit because HP Stream has Celeron instead of a CPU): OpenSUSE or KDE Neon
Gnome: Fedora
If you're autistic and/or want a WM-based minimalistic setup: Arch

>>57762007
It's a pity because Ubuntu 14 is decent otherwise. Irritating that they don't add the newer libavcodecs to the official repos. Can't be that difficult.

Solus is looking cool. Only available in 64-bit, though.