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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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I just switched from my favorite distro (Linux Mint) to Debian 12 KDE Plasma. (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by wxboss@beehaw.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Debian and KDE is a great combination and things have been running very smoothly so far. I think I have officially converted.

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[–] themoonisacheese@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Highly recommend KDE connect. It's the number one thing keeping me from experimenting other compositors, I just can't see myself not having it.

[–] redawl@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Welcome to the Debian family :)

[–] Nuuskis@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Debian 12 is the best Debian ever made. I overlooked it for decades because it was so painful to use but 12 changed everything. I'm waiting to see it reviewed against LMDE6, because I doubt LMDE6 could be better/faster/lighter.

[–] piezoelectron@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could you share any particular points that made you switch? I'm currently on Manjaro and I was thinking of switching to Fedora. But now I've started hearing good things about Debian...not sure how to proceed!

[–] communist@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Please don't use manjaro: https://manjarno.snorlax.sh/

I recommend endeavoros if you want something arch based that's pre-setup and configured.

But debian has a very diffferent usecase from arch, everything is kept up to date in arch, if you need recent versions of things, don't use debian.

If you want things to not change, like on a server, or a workstation machine where you can't risk a change breaking something, debian is great!

For gaming, i'd pick arch any day because gaming stuff is chaning so fast. It's also better for wayland since that's also changing quickly.

Fedora is somewhat inbetween.

[–] unix_joe@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Cool, I just switched from openSUSE Tumbleweed to Debian and KDE last month. No problems, works great.

[–] dufkm@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Nice! I did the same not so long ago.

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