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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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| − | For more information, consult each distros' home and wikipedia pages.
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| − | == [[Debian]] ==
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| − | A community-developed distro focused on stability. Has the biggest user base if you include distros based on it. Comes in various releases with different tradeoffs of stability/up
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| − | === [[Ubuntu]] ===
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| − | Takes Debian Testing, makes sure its packages are usable, adds drivers, adds handholding, and adds spyware. Not to fear, it's easily removable ([fixubuntu.com]). Comes with Unity by default. Repo is supplemented with user-maintained PPAs, so if it's available for Linux you can probably find it here. The most popular desktop distro with the most guides and solutions on various forums.
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| − | Developed by Canonical, the evil empire of the free software world.
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| − | ==== Mint ====
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| − | Takes Ubuntu, removes spyware, adds proprietary shit like Flash right in the iso. Developed the MATE and Cinnamon desktop environments. Uses Ubuntu repos.
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| − | ==== Elementary ====
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| − | Takes Ubuntu and makes it look like OS X by developing the Pantheon desktop environment. Uses Ubuntu repos.
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| − | === Crunchbang ===
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| − | Takes Debian Stable and rices it for you. Openbox, Tint2, the works. Comes with drivers. Uses stable and backport Debian repos.
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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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| − | ==== Tiling ====
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| − | AwesomeWM
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| − | the rest/who cares
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