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submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes
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[โ€“] cashews_best_nut 26 points 8 months ago (17 children)

There's Two Main Choices:

Packages....

  1. Pacman-based - Arch, Arco, Endeavour
  2. RPM-based - Fedora, SuSE
  3. Aptitude-based - Ubuntu, Debian

Choose Pacman for rolling release, bleeding edge. Pick aptitude for servers and pick RPM if you want something that 'just works'.

Desktop....

  1. Full DE - Gnome, KDE
  2. Window Manager - Awesome, i3

High end machines with lots of fancy features and ease of use pick a full DE. WM is good for speed and low-end hardware but harder to use.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Most new Linux users if not all, are unable to make an educated decision on package management. The UI that they think they will like better would be more important.

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