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| ''Page status: outline''
| | #REDIRECT [[Babbies First Linux]] |
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| ''To-do: Flesh out descriptions and shit, add photos of DEs''
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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.
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| There are three things you want to compare when distro shopping.
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| 1. Distro quirks
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| 2. [[Desktop environment]]
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| 3. Application library
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| == Distro families ==
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| For more information, consult each distros' home and wikipedia pages.
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| == [[Debian]] ==
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| 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
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| -to-datedness. More or less the most important distro.
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| === [[Ubuntu]] ===
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| 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.
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| Developed by [[Canonical]], the evil empire of the free software world.
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| ==== Mint ====
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| Takes Ubuntu, removes spyware, adds proprietary shit like Flash right in the iso. Developed the MATE and Cinnamon desktop environments. Uses Ubuntu repos.
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| ==== Elementary ====
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| Takes Ubuntu and makes it look like OS X by developing the Pantheon desktop environment. Uses Ubuntu repos.
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| === Crunchbang ===
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| Takes Debian Stable and rices it for you. Openbox, Tint2, the works. Comes with drivers. Uses stable and backport Debian repos.
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| == [[Fedora]] ==
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| == [[OpenSUSE]] ==
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| == [[Arch]] ==
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| == [[Gentoo]] ==
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| == [[Slackware]] ==
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| == Other ==
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| === Mageia ===
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| === PCLinuxOS ===
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| === Puppy ===
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| == How new r u ==
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| === babby's first loonix ===
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| [[Ubuntu]] with fixubuntu.com
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| Mint
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| Elementary
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| [[Fedora]]
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| [[OpenSUSE]]
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| DEs:Any
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| === Reasonably experienced ===
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| [[Debian]]
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| Crunchbang
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| [[Arch]]
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| Now you can do WMs
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| === Neckbeard tier ===
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| [[Gentoo]]
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| [[Slackware]]
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| LFS
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| == Desktop Environments ==
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| [[Gnome]] 3
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| Cinnamon - Mint
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| Unity - Ubuntu
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| Pantheon - Elementary
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| MATE (Gnome 2) - Mint
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| [[KDE]]
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| XFCE
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| LXDE
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| === Window Managers ===
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| Explanation of stacking/tiling shit
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| ==== Stacking ====
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| Openbox
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| the rest/who cares
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| ==== Tiling ====
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| AwesomeWM
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| dwm
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| xmonad
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| the rest/who cares
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Latest revision as of 17:15, 17 November 2015