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Alright faggots its time for another round of "what distro /g/ recommends".
What distro would you recommend for a half decent laptop with 4GB of RAM with a half decent i3 cpu and no dedicated GPU.
It currently has Linux Mint which hasn't been updated in forever because it hasn't been used for a long fucking time. I think It's Olivia or Qiana or whatever but fuck that shit I want something with less security holes and a decent OS updater for a change.
I have experience with mostly Debian, Ubuntu (and derivatives), Fedora, Mageia and it's derivative PCLinuxOS. Currently leaning more towards Mageia again but being primarily developed around KDE makes my stomach churn.
So what do you have for me? And no I won't fall for the Solus meme.
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Trisquel, Ubuntu without the botnet.
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Manjaro sound like it would be right up your alley. All the good things about Arch and none of the bad.
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>>57819101
Isn't that the one that's 100% FOSS but compatible with Ubuntu packages? I like the sound of that quite honestly.
>>57819131
I've heard about it. I've heard people say it's quite powerful but can be pretty unstable and crashworthy. Is that true?
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>>57819182
Absolutely, it has Ubuntu packages but without the botnet packages/firmware.
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Slackware.
You can decide everything on your computer, even dependencies.
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>>57819182
>I've heard people say it's quite powerful but can be pretty unstable and crashworthy. Is that true?
It's way more stable than Arch while still being 'cutting edge'. Most likely you won't run into many problems. But you WILL have access to the AUR which is a huge bonus.
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>>57819101
>>57819131
Alright, after doing some reading I'm definetly divided between Manjaro and Trisquel. I think I might actually try out both on VMs before picking one.
I also have my more powerful desktop I want to setup a dualboot with but on that I'm leaning towards just slapping Fedora on it.
Thank you.
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>>57819131
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Arch, it just werks
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just use Windows
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>>57820357
I used to be a Mandriva kiddie back when that was in it's height (hence familiarity with Mageia).
I can recognize a meme distro when I see one. Fuck off.
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>>57822401
Ikr? Everything on that list was a meme except for Solus.
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>>57822422
nice bait
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>>57822536
I'm not baiting.
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>>57822553
Fine. I'll bite.
Solus is trying to be the new Mandriva and fails at it miserably. Prove me wrong.
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