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There are three things you want to compare when distro shopping.
There are three things you want to compare when distro shopping.
1. Distro quirks
1. Distro quirks
2. [[Desktop environment]]
2. [[Desktop environment]]
3. Application library
3. Application library


== Distro families ==
=== [[Debian]] ===
==== [[Ubuntu]] ====
Mint
Elementary
==== Crunchbang ====
=== [[Fedora]] ===
=== [[OpenSUSE]] ===
=== [[Arch]] ===
=== [[Gentoo]] ===
=== [[Slackware]] ===


=== Distro families ===


[[Debian]]
=== Other ===
-[[Ubuntu]]
-Mint
-Elementary
-Crunchbang


[[Fedora]


[[OpenSUSE]]
==== Mageia ====


[[Arch]]


[[Gentoo]]
==== PCLinuxOS ====


[[Slackware]]


Other
==== Puppy ====
-Mageia
-PCLinuxOS
-Puppy




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DEs:Any
DEs:Any


=== Reasonably experienced ===
=== Reasonably experienced ===
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Now you can do WMs
Now you can do WMs


=== Neckbeard tier ===
=== Neckbeard tier ===
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LFS
LFS


== Desktop Environments ==
== Desktop Environments ==
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LXDE
LXDE


=== Window Managers ===
=== Window Managers ===


Explanation of stacking/tiling shit
Explanation of stacking/tiling shit


==== Stacking ====
==== Stacking ====
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the rest/who cares
the rest/who cares


==== Tiling ====
==== Tiling ====

Revision as of 04:42, 9 February 2014

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.

1. Distro quirks

2. Desktop environment

3. 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