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The Linux world is no longer as good as it used to be, but if anything you won't get bad surprises, and you really have a chance at exercising real ownership on your system.

Now, everyone has their opinions on this topic, but my recommendation is to use Debian with xfce4 or mate ;-)

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~abacushex wrote (thread):

I’m genuinely curious, in what ways do you feel it isn’t as good? I tried the KDE variant of Ubuntu early last year and was very impressed how everything ‘just worked’ in terms of hardware support in a way even Windows ‘official support’ couldn’t match. Or is it about the community at large and not the technology itself?

I could try Mate, but I was quite impressed by how KDE manages to look like a 21at century desktop while being fast and with little more resource use than Xfce. Either way, it’s that flexibility of choice that is so appealing vs. Windows no matter how stable Windows is now.