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Before researching and choosing the right distrobution for you, you must have in mind what you want to use it for. Facebook machine? Programming? Gaming (lel)? A secondary consideration is hardware. Linux generally tends to play well with underpowered or aging computers, but you may want to try lighter distros.
 
There are three things you want to compare when distro shopping.
 
1. Distro quirks
 
2. [[Desktop environment]]
 
3. Application library
 
== Distro families ==
 
For more information, visit each distro's homepage, Wikipedia, and DistroWatch.
 
 
== [[Debian]] ==
 
A community-developed distro focused on stability. Has the biggest user base if you include distros based on it. Comes in various releases with different tradeoffs of stability/up
-to-datedness. More or less the most important distro.
 
=== [[Ubuntu]] ===
 
Takes Debian Testing, makes sure its packages are usable, adds drivers, adds handholding, and adds spyware. Not to fear, it's easily removable ([fixubuntu.com]). Comes with Unity by default. Repo is supplemented with user-maintained PPAs, so if it's available for Linux you can probably find it here. The most popular desktop distro with the most guides and solutions on various forums.
 
Developed by [[Canonical]], the evil empire of the free software world.
 
==== Mint ====
Takes Ubuntu, removes spyware, adds proprietary shit like Flash right in the iso. Developed the MATE and Cinnamon desktop environments. Uses Ubuntu repos.
 
==== Elementary ====
 
Takes Ubuntu and makes it look like OS X by developing the Pantheon desktop environment. Uses Ubuntu repos.
 
 
=== Crunchbang ===
 
Takes Debian Stable and rices it for you. Openbox, Tint2, the works. Comes with drivers. Uses stable and backport Debian repos.
 
 
== [[Fedora]] ==
 
Developed by [[Red Hat]], probably the biggest corporate backer of Linux, as a testing bed for its commercial RHEL distro. Bleeding edge -
 
== [[OpenSUSE]] ==
 
Developed by [[Novell]] as a testing bed for its commercial SUSE distro. Best implementation of KDE.
 
== [[Arch]] ==
 
A community-developed distro focused on
 
== [[Gentoo]] ==
 
Install it.
 
== [[Slackware]] ==
 
 
 
== Other ==
 
 
=== Mageia ===
 
 
=== PCLinuxOS ===
 
 
=== Puppy ===
 
 
== How new r u ==
 
=== babby's first loonix ===
 
[[Ubuntu]] with fixubuntu.com
 
Mint
 
Elementary
 
[[Fedora]]
 
[[OpenSUSE]]
 
 
DEs:Any
 
=== Reasonably experienced ===
 
[[Debian]]
 
Crunchbang
 
[[Arch]]
 
 
Now you can do WMs
 
=== Neckbeard tier ===
 
[[Gentoo]]
 
[[Slackware]]
 
LFS
 
== Desktop Environments ==
 
[[Gnome]] 3
 
[[File:Screenshot GNOME 3.10.png|thumb|GNOME 3.10]]
 
Cinnamon - Mint
 
[[File:Screenshot Cinnamon-2.0.jpg|thumb|Cinnamon 2.0]]
 
Unity - Ubuntu
 
[[File:Screenshot Unity from Ubuntu 13.10.jpg|thumb|Unity - Ubuntu 13.10]]
 
http://www.ubuntu.com/tour/en/
 
Pantheon - Elementary
 
[[File:Screenshot Pantheon from eOS 0.2.png|thumb|Pantheon - eOS 0.2]]
 
MATE (Gnome 2) - Mint
 
[[File:Screenshot MATE 1.6.png|thumb|MATE 1.6]]
 
[[KDE]]
 
[[File:Screenshot KDE 4.12.png|thumb|KDE 4.12]]
 
XFCE
 
[[File:Screenshot XFCE 4.10.png|thumb|XFCE 4.10]]
 
LXDE
 
[[File:Screenshot LXDE.png|thumb|LXDE]]
 
=== Window Managers ===
 
Explanation of stacking/tiling shit
 
==== Stacking ====
 
Openbox
 
the rest/who cares
 
==== Tiling ====
 
AwesomeWM
 
dwm
 
xmonad
 
the rest/who cares

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