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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.
-. Distro quirks
-. [[Desktop environment]]
-. Application library
-== Distro families ==
-For more information, consult each distros' home and wikipedia pages.
-=== [[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]] ===
-=== [[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

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