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"I really like Debian and feel it's the most powerful yet realistic, efficient."
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"* I don't know if any of you are around whatever my age is, but when I was in High School the game arcades were real popular. I wonder these days if that's what I'm trying to accomplish, is a room full of different OSs LOL"
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JeffS
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> After rereading your OP, I'd think you may like
> Arch or Debian unstable, or possibly even Debian
> testing. I've not tried Debian in years and
> there's much more qualified people around here to
> explain the differences.
>
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JeffS
> I'd encourage you to also try some different DE's.
> I personally like XFCE as it's more of a clean
> un-fancy but somewhat plain, get er done, (think
> XP) desktop environment. The ones that look
> awesome with fancy graphics and unconventional
> workflow paradigms like Gnome 3, Unity, etc, are
> not for me, but they definitely have their fan
> base as well.
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Rayknight
Like bodhi I have a Linux Mint VM on MacOS as my primary system (a 27" IMac with 3.4 GB i7 processor and 32GB RAM). All my other systems are running either Debian (sometimes Armbian) or OpenWrt, although I've started to migrate some of the OpenWrt systems to LEDE. I also have an Ubuntu VM because that is what works best with the Armbian build system.
I don't blame you there. But I can't believe you don't have the same problems with programs on debian I am having. Maybe you don't mind replacing them with current source like I do. Linux kernel compiling was fine but u-boot stopped me dead in the water. debian had a replacement that didn't work for me and they referred to another program that didn't exist with their own links. It's maddening.Quote
bodhi
Exactly. The most stable distro: Debian. The best UI: Mint. Thus, Mint is the most friendly and least troublesome Linux distro to install on your relatives and friends laptop.
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JeffS
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> -----
> > After rereading your OP, I'd think you may like
> > Arch or Debian unstable, or possibly even
> Debian
> > testing. I've not tried Debian in years and
> > there's much more qualified people around here
> to
> > explain the differences.
> >
>
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JeffS
> > I'd encourage you to also try some different
> DE's.
> > I personally like XFCE as it's more of a clean
> > un-fancy but somewhat plain, get er done,
> (think
> > XP) desktop environment. The ones that look
> > awesome with fancy graphics and unconventional
> > workflow paradigms like Gnome 3, Unity, etc,
> are
> > not for me, but they definitely have their fan
> > base as well.
>
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Rayknight
> Like bodhi I have a Linux Mint VM on MacOS as my
> primary system (a 27" IMac with 3.4 GB i7
> processor and 32GB RAM). All my other systems are
> running either Debian (sometimes Armbian) or
> OpenWrt, although I've started to migrate some of
> the OpenWrt systems to LEDE. I also have an Ubuntu
> VM because that is what works best with the
> Armbian build system.
>
> I don't blame you there. But I can't believe youQuote
bodhi
> Exactly. The most stable distro: Debian. The best
> UI: Mint. Thus, Mint is the most friendly and
> least troublesome Linux distro to install on your
> relatives and friends laptop.
>
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bodhi
> Advice: Dont try to cross compile u-boot. Do it
> natively on the box for that uboot. It is small so
> does not take too long.
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