Best Linux distro for a laptop with these specs?

[Thetri]

CPU- AMD E-350 Zacate 40nm Technology
      Ram- 4.00 GB DDR3 @ 539MHz
      Motherboard- Hewlett-Packard 3577(Socket FT1)
      Graphics- AMD Radeon HD 6310 Graphics(HP)

I currently have windows 7 home premium 64 bit and ubuntu 11.04 32 bit installed on it in a dual boot config. What is the best distro of linux for a computer with these specs? I want something that is fast and picks up my wireless drivers automatically, also should i use the 32 bit or 64 bit version? i would preferably want something that i can install using a wubi like installer.

[Bucky Ball]

Best distro for that machine? What problems are you having exactly? 64bit for dual-core.

[fantab]

Whats the problem with Ubuntu?
I'd say stick with Ubuntu... It is one of the best out there, unless you have tried other distros and have developed a preference otherwise.

[Bucky Ball]

... and Wubi is not really intended for a permanent install; more to try out the distro.

[searchfgold6789]

I think that, with that computer, you would greatly enjoy something like Kubuntu. Frankly I wouldn't mess around with Fedora, Arch, CentOS, etc, but you can check those out if you want. Go with 64 bit.

[3Miro]

Define best distro. The specs on the machine are enough for any distro to run comfortably, the only question is what do you want to do on this machine, how familiar are you with Linux and how much time you want to spend setting up the system.

Generally speaking, just install Ubuntu and don't worry about it.

[wolfen69]

With those specs, you can run pretty much anything you want. I would suggest a real dual boot instead of wubi though, and use 64bit unless you have a specific reason to use 32.

[Thetri]

Whats the problem with Ubuntu?
I'd say stick with Ubuntu... It is one of the best out there, unless you have tried other distros and have developed a preference otherwise.

No problem with it, just saw somewhere in the options that it was using like 74-90 percent of my cpu and thought that it was maybe to resource heavy for my laptop. plus i already have ubuntu 64 bit on my desktop and was hoping to find something different for my laptop. i wanted to use mint, but it doesent work with wubi, which is my only option for now since i am not ready to convert to 100% linux on that machine yet. so for right now i am going to try kubuntu 64 bit like someone suggested earlier. thanks for your help guys.

[Thetri]

Define best distro. The specs on the machine are enough for any distro to run comfortably, the only question is what do you want to do on this machine, how familiar are you with Linux and how much time you want to spend setting up the system.

Generally speaking, just install Ubuntu and don't worry about it.

I've used quite a few distros on virtual machines over the summer, and i have a full linux machine with pardus 2011 but i'm no expert. i dont want to spend much time configuring(especially wireless card), i want to be able to play games, browse, youtube, etc. and i want it to be fast.

[Bucky Ball]

You don't need to go 100% Ubuntu. Just dual-boot with Windows or run one or the other in virtual machine. Wubi? bah ...