Looking for distro recs. Something easy and lightweight for a school laptop that will be a glorified word processor + web browser.
I only have experience with two distros from when I used Linux ~5 years ago: Ubuntu: I started with this and found it to be... ugly garbage honestly. Only ever made me miss Windows. Crunchbang: Needed something for an old laptop and it blew me away. Fast. Elegant. Nice aesthetic. No desktop icons, folders, or start menu. Had to open everything by right clicking on the desktop or hitting the hotkey and it somehow ended up being way smoother than how I was used to laptops working. The project died years ago unfortunately. Any current, recommendable distros that smooth?
Install Arch >people will know you're a real hacker not just some wannabe >you can get laid constantly by telling girls you use arch >everyone will accept you as chad when they see your riced i3-gaps + anime wallpaper setup
Isaiah Ramirez
Xubuntu is honestly the best light desktop experience on Linux right now.
Ryan Allen
Xubuntu rules
Julian Turner
this, lightweight, easy to use, and cute
Jackson Green
wut m8 explain
Jonathan Wright
they are all botnet shit, its free but not libre, so yeah Alpine is nice
Nathaniel Johnson
gentoo is good too, but only if you compile it yourself
how would I steal that CDE aesthetic in something else?
Noah Foster
kde and xfce where CDE clones initially, since it was closed source and you had to buy it.. now its open source, just use it if you like the design
Justin Lewis
this, don't listen to these fucking idiots recommending arch, devuan or whatever "minimal" shit.
If you want something perfect, get a fedora netinstall, install sway, and enjoy the way it *just works*.
Modern packages, and repos for most open source projects. Good security with SELinux. No Canonical bs. it just works
David Martinez
What's a good, easy distro for someone coming from macOS who likes its design philosophy? I've heard about elementaryOS but some people say it's not a good choice and has a small dev team.
Andrew Taylor
if you really care about design, then elementary or solus, but be warned that these distros are impaired and arent great for productivity. use something else with worse design if you can, you will save yourself a lot of suffering
Isaiah Brown
It seems like figuring out how to port the aesthetic would be better after all, given what I'm reading. >I recommend the Common Desktop Environment for didactic and learning purpose only. Its archaic design does not resemble today’s desktops.
Xavier Perez
how difficult/time-consuming is it to make a more mainstream distro like fedora, ubuntu or debian look nice?
Julian King
exactly the same as with any other distro.. ricing is not done by the distro, but by the user..
a few distros like elementary have custom DEs, if you like em you got it.. if not you got trouble ahead of you..
Fedora and debian come with clean desktop managers, ubuntu has a slighty themed gnome3 .. but in reality its just a few extensions
Ayden Wilson
probably quite a long time. you can copy someones dotfiles but you will end up tweaking it and wasting hours. I really recommend just using vanilla sway. it's clean and functional
Elijah Turner
Linux is just a kernel. You want an operating system.
Andrew Mitchell
YOU CAN MAKE ANY OS LOOK LIKE ANY OTHER OS YOU DUMB FAGGOT!
WTF DO YOU MEAAAAAN BY UGLY OS???? JUST CHANGE THE FUCKING WM/DE YOU FUCKING CHILD NOOB FAGGOT KYS KYS KYS KSHYSYFJOSDHFUIOSMJLKFsnh >LFmjohlbnufzaswebhkiscdbhk uioq2sWENHJOJLAQNKm
William Phillips
What are the stats of said laptop? CPU, RAM, etc. I can tell you right now that replacing an old hard drive with an SSD will make a huge fucking difference.
Mason Johnson
Based and redpilled
Jack Hughes
Devuan >No cuckage >Simple
Jason Richardson
Gnu/WIndows 7
Robert Long
Linux Mint MATE (Suggesting MATE instead of Cinnamon because Cinnamon control center has a bug that prevents it from connecting to many school wifi networks, specifically, ones secured with PEAP authentication method.
