Hey, I'm really anti-microsoft and largely anti-apple. I am desperately trying to full switch to GNU/linux (currently using elementary OS on my laptop). I don't trust and want to support Canonical and therefore ubuntu so can someone point me in a direction that allows me to use a non-Ubuntu os, is really fucking good at privacy and customization and how to customize it. I am looking into Debian KDE but I don't know much about desktop environments and windows managers. I want to make it minimalist but have some support for a dock and spotlight search.
Debian KDE is very cool and light but KDE isn't user friendly at all. If you want something that just werks get antergos/manjaro KDE. The aur is a godsend if you don't want to compile some stuff. If you want a window manager try larbs.xyz. debian isn't that nice with wms.
Tyler Thompson
Based Orwellposter. Just for that image I will reply to you. I would recommend Debian with xfce, because I am a bit of an xfce fanboy. It is simple and easy and small and fast but provides a 'dock' panel and top bar.
Cheers mate, I like the idea of debian because it seems quite easy to learn and not limited so I will look into XFCE. Infact, I will start making a usb now, thanks.
James Martin
That looks nice, but not for me.
Charles Hall
2 questions, how good is the software support on Debian? I take it is better, if not equal in terms of software availability and compatibility? Going to be using mostly linux-native applications but I will be trying WINE and other windows games on linux, will I be okay even though I haven't used linux too extensively? 2. I take it customization is nice? I've looked at some screenshots and I think it looks nicer than KDE by a long shot, will definitely try it out.
Lincoln Wood
>Support Debian is 'upstream' of Ubuntu, so everything that goes into Ubuntu gets there via Debian (this isn't strictly true but it's close enough). They share the same package management system (apt-get) and lots of stuff that applies to Ubuntu also applies to Debian, so you can often google solutions and get the advantage of the much larger Ubuntu noob-support world.. The biggest thing to remember is that Debian Stable can take like a long time between big updates. >Customisation Customisation is nice on XFCE. It's not like these guys with totally riced XMonad or enlightenmnt where you need to learn a programming language to configure your window manager, but still very good (and come a long way since I started using it years ago).
Everything is pretty modular, so most distros can be made to look the same. I suggest picking something fairly minimal so you can focus more on installing what you want rather than removing stuff. This may be overwhelming if you're a new user, since you may not know what programs you'll want to use yet.
Owen Davis
>debian isn't that nice with wms. i3-wm is a debian package. I don't know what problems you're imagining.
