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@RantSomeWhere Nope haha. Not familiar enough with it and I just need something I know right now ;)
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Smh why downgrade from Windows (assuming that's what's on it unless you're buying it from another tech guy)? 😏😂
What's the laptop's usage gonna be? -
Jilano273045y@linuxxx Well if you need something you know, go for Debian, otherwise, I suggest giving a go try to Void.
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Hm depends on the hardware specs I guess. I got Puppy Linux running pretty smoothly on my friends 13-year-old Laptop he wanted to throw away (all he does is some office work and casually browsing the Internet).
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Jilano273045y@linuxxx I haven't been able to spend too much time on it, yet, but I didn't run into any big issue. As for the package manager, it seemed good to me!
Here's the wiki page for "XBPS": https://wiki.voidlinux.org/XBPS
And here's a quick review of the distribution itself: https://itsfoss.com/void-linux/ -
Linux MX is a Debian based small distro. Similar philosophy to arch (no bloatware) but without the instability of rolling releases. Plus it's Debian so you get access to apt-get :)
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bahua131385yIf you prefer debian flavors, and the machine itself will be relatively underpowered, then I don't see any reason to run anything but debian. I would recommend however that you do not run a display manager, and launch X with xinit/startx instead.
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I ordered a second hand mini laptop. (Mini as in 8 inch)
Now I obviously will put some kind of Linux distro onto it but I'm wondering which one I should choose.
Debian based is a must, except for that I don't know yet.
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