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== Distro families ==
== Distro families ==
For more information, consult each distros' home and wikipedia pages.


=== [[Debian]] ===
=== [[Debian]] ===

Revision as of 04:54, 9 February 2014

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To-do: Flesh out descriptions and shit

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, consult each distros' home and wikipedia pages.

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