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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you just need a general purpose desktop and it's your your first time, I would suggest just picking a popular and stable one with lots of documentation like Debian, Mint or Ubuntu.

[–] laverabe 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I'm leaning towards Debian myself. I don't like the direction Ubuntu (mint is essentially Ubuntu too) is going. Ubuntu is ran by a for profit company, and it is only going to get worse after snaps.

From what I've read Debian is about as new user friendly as Ubuntu is.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah I would definitely choose Debian in that case. Enjoy :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As someone who switched a year ago and started from Debian - yes, it absolutely is beginner-friendly)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How's the gaming support on debian?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I only play Team Fortress 2, and it runs with no issues) But when it comes to normally-windows games, people say it's mostly fine. Haven't yet tried myself though.