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| − | == Outline of choices ==
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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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| − | === [[Debian]] ===
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| − | ==== [[Ubuntu]] ====
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| − | Mint
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| − | Elementary
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| − | ==== Crunchbang ====
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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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