I’m planning to put Debian-based operating system onto my Surface Laptop Gen 1, following the guide (linux-surface). Any good Debian-based Linux recommendations? For now I’m considering AntiX (lightweight debian) and normal Debian.

  • just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Pick one. It’s debian-based. You literally can’t pick “the wrong one”. You just have uninstall what you don’t like, and install what you want. That simple.

    • mrgreyeyes@feddit.nl
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      3 months ago

      Will work fine indeed. Only I always have some issues getting the touchscreen working seamlessly. Is there a window manager on Debian who does it well?

      • Fisch@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        3 months ago

        I’ve used both KDE Plasma and GNOME on my Laptop with a touch screen and both worked well. GNOME is better with touch screens in general but that’s just because of the gestures and GTK apps working better with touch screens (e.g. you can always scroll by swiping up or down, not sure if that’s the same in QT apps).

  • Eugenia@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Go with Linux Mint, but the Edge edition. This will have the best chances to support your hardware, because it uses a newer kernel.

  • GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    You can just go for Ubuntu, Mint or AntiX if you want good experience. Debian can be harder but it’s quite stable (unless you use KDE). Any other suggestions depend on your use cases. For example, you can only use Ubuntu based distros for some Android development tasks

      • pelya@lemmy.world
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        3 months ago

        I’ve had problems with KDE on Wayland on Debian 12, it fails when entering sleep mode with multiple monitors. Thankfully, KDE on X is just one package install away, and it works with no bugs.

      • pmk@lemmy.sdf.org
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        3 months ago

        There’s a difference between stability and reliability. Stable means that functionality is the same over a period of time, no major changes to how it works. Reliable means that it doesn’t crash all the time. If something crashes the same way for the same reason, it’s stable but not reliable. If something changes a lot but doesn’t crash, it’s reliable but not stable.
        In practice what it comes down to is a choice if you want outdated but known bugs or new surprise bugs.

  • yak@feddit.it
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    3 months ago

    If you want Debian, just install Debian.

    Maybe if you’re into wm setups and you’d like to not have to do everything from scratch you can install Bunsenlabs instead.

    It’s just plain Debian with preconfigured Openox, that’s all.

  • Paola@lemmy.mlBEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Look into MxLinux. It is Debian based with lots of noce tools. And as DE you could use KDE.

      • pmk@lemmy.sdf.org
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        3 months ago

        Maybe Debian with a wm? I like cwm, but there are many to choose from. You can add pretty much any cool feature on top.

      • Vivendi@lemmy.zip
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        3 months ago

        Debian is the lightest derivative of Debian

        The installer outright gives you the option out of many different desktop environments and use cases and if you don’t like to install a desktop you can install base system debian that’s literally just a terminal environment and nothing else