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I bought a desktop about 12 years ago and installed on it many distro, they worked fine, i was a linux mint 12 cinnamon user, i had no issues at all.

now i sold it, bought a new laptop about a year ago, everything is better on this laptop, the only difference is that i have an intel graphic card, not nvidia, I dualboot the laptop, windows is for university projects (C++ java...) and gaming. Linux is for my own projects.

I tried many linux distro, mint 13, ubuntu 12.04, 12.10, fuduntu, crunchbang, every linux distro that i tried needs "nomodeset" in order to work! Furthermore, mint 13 cinnamon desktop, ubuntu 12.10 unity, macubuntu, and fuduntu desktop don't work as they should, i can't install some mate and xfce themes...

For example cinnamon runs in fallback mode only, fuduntu desktop freezes and shows a black screen... What did linux do to its desktop? none is compatible with my graphic card, my graphic card is excellent, i can play fifa 13 or whatever on desktop, never had issues, so why is linux causing me headache?
Have you obtained Linux drivers for the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator (graphics card) that is running in your laptop?
after installing any linux, you go to drivers, and install the missing drivers, something related with the 3d accelerator, if that what you mean then yes i installed that driver on each distro, i do that right after installing the distro, besides,i quote from this answer
The Intel graphics driver is part of the xserver-xorg-video-intel driver package, which is installed on all Ubuntu systems by default
Doesn't that mean i shouldn't have any issues?

for those interested in seeing the specs of my graphic card
Graphics:  Card-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller bus-ID: 00:02.0 
           Card-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Seymour [Radeon HD 6400M Series] bus-ID: 01:00.0 
           X.Org: 1.11.3 drivers: vesa,intel (unloaded: fbdev) Resolution: 1368x768@0.0hz 
           GLX Renderer: N/A GLX Version: N/A Direct Rendering: N/A
15 days later
It looks like you have both an Intel and ATI card in your laptop (with the idea being that you use the ATI card for 3D gaming and the Intel for everyday use).

Both cards should be supported out of the box by any newer distribution, so the problems might be related to some odd hardware configuration. Have you tried Fedora 18?
Hey jdieter, glad to have you on board!
@jdieter fuduntu is based on fedora and didn't work without nomodeset. Why should i try fedora? by the way i don't really like it, and i don't like kde, last time i tried it on mint 12, it made my pc 100 times slower.

Even arch needs nomodeset! even arch!!! i installed archbang 2 weeks ago, and it needs nomodeset! My graphic card is really good, I'm playing sleeping dogs, it's one of the best games released in 2012 and it runs perfectly on windows.
Yeah, hehe, your GFX card is definitely not intel then.... :) just sayin
The main reason I suggested Fedora is that it tends to have the latest versions of Xorg and the open source drivers. Fuduntu may have originally been based on Fedora, but I think it's made enough changes that its results won't necessarily be representative of Fedora's.

I personally use Gnome Shell on Fedora, so I'm not sure what to tell you about your KDE problems. Cinnamon is also available, if that's what you prefer, but, again the main purpose in using Fedora is to see if the latest open drivers fix the problem. If that's the problem, you can then decide whether or not it's worth the trouble of switching to Fedora.

Another possible problem may be that you're using AMD/ATI's binary drivers. IIRC, as they aren't KMS drivers, they don't do modesetting in the kernel. If you're using them, it may be worth uninstalling. The performance on the open drivers may not be as good as the binary drivers, but, in my experience, there's a huge reduction in compatibility problems.
ok sir, i'll try to update xorg on ubuntu, which is currently installed, if it didn't fix it, i'll take a look at the binary drivers, if that didn't fix it, i'll give fedora a try... thanks a lot sir, you're the first one to actually give me some hints on what might be causing those issues.