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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.
 
 
 
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
 

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