I have a Dell D630 laptop and successfully got Sid running very smoothly on it. I kept some notes as I setup my system just the way I want it, e.g. no bloat, no unnecessary software, efficient and "stable".
Note: The Dell D830 is very similar to the D630 and other Dell laptops, so info in the guide may apply to similar laptops.
Some of the software I have installed:
gnome-core and some gnome applications
openoffice writer and calc (spreadsheets)
compiz-fusion
cairo-dock
kismet
conky
mplayer & xmms
Rather than write a how-to here in this forum, I made a Web page that describes pretty much all I did from install on up to "final" product of a system that works for me and has just what I need on it. I will likely break it in the future and have to startt from scratch again...thus my need for this howto:
http://members.cox.net/tonyt/d830/
good luck!
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