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-== Outline of choices ==
-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.
-. Distro quirks
-. [[Desktop environment]]
-. Application library
-== Distro families ==
-=== [[Debian]] ===
-==== [[Ubuntu]] ====
-Mint
-Elementary
-==== Crunchbang ====
-=== [[Fedora]] ===
-=== [[OpenSUSE]] ===
-=== [[Arch]] ===
-=== [[Gentoo]] ===
-=== [[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
-Cinnamon - Mint
-Unity - Ubuntu
-Pantheon - Elementary
-MATE (Gnome 2) - Mint
-[[KDE]]
-XFCE
-LXDE
-=== Window Managers ===
-Explanation of stacking/tiling shit
-==== Stacking ====
-Openbox
-the rest/who cares
-==== Tiling ====
-AwesomeWM
-dwm
-xmonad
-the rest/who cares