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Choosing a Distro

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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. 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