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2. [[Desktop environment]] | 2. [[Desktop environment]] | ||
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3. Application library | 3. Application library | ||
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Revision as of 05:42, 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
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
DEs:Any
Reasonably experienced
Crunchbang
Now you can do WMs
Neckbeard tier
LFS
Desktop Environments
Gnome 3
Cinnamon - Mint
Unity - Ubuntu
Pantheon - Elementary
MATE (Gnome 2) - Mint
XFCE
LXDE
Window Managers
Explanation of stacking/tiling shit
Stacking
Openbox
the rest/who cares
Tiling
AwesomeWM
dwm
xmonad
the rest/who cares
