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View Poll Results: Desktop Distribution of the Year
being very new to Linux i found Linux Mint as the best distribution of the year. super easy availability of Isos on its official website just made my work easy and the compatibility with my hardware is worth appreciating, i am having an old desktop Intel core 2 duo on which Linux mint 18.3 Sylvia Cinnamon edition is running pretty good no glitches. as being new to Linux i found it easy to install absolutely free open source, cinnamon edition was quiet similar to windows which helped me how it works. Great Respect for Slackware being one of the oldest surviving distribution ever, deserves respect. Debian also deserves to be the Best Distribution of year, installing gnome shell on wayland as Display server was easier in Debian than in Ubuntu. && installing Arch Linux taught me beautifully how to communicate with your hardware. it taught me the obedience as to how to text your hardware and get your work done.
Distribution: Slackware/Salix while testing others
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being very new to Linux i found Linux Mint as the best distribution of the year. super easy availability of Isos on its official website just made my work easy and the compatibility with my hardware is worth appreciating, i am having an old desktop Intel core 2 duo on which Linux mint 18.3 Sylvia Cinnamon edition is running pretty good no glitches. as being new to Linux i found it easy to install absolutely free open source, cinnamon edition was quiet similar to windows which helped me how it works. Great Respect for Slackware being one of the oldest surviving distribution ever, deserves respect. Debian also deserves to be the Best Distribution of year, installing gnome shell on wayland as Display server was easier in Debian than in Ubuntu. && installing Arch Linux taught me beautifully how to communicate with your hardware. it taught me the obedience as to how to text your hardware and get your work done.
ahem..Slackware is the oldest not just one of them...
Distribution: openSuSE Tumbleweed-KDE, Mint 21, MX-21, Manjaro
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... KDE 5 simply sucks as I can't do things in it that I can do in KDE 4. DDE might be a good alternative to KDE 5. Tell us more and where we can experiment with it.
By all means try DDE. In the meantime make sure to use the latest KDE5. I use openSUSE, with leap KDE was -- well, not nice, openSUSE tumbleweed on the other hand always has the latest version of KDE5/Plasma and boy, that is a difference...
Hi, WHAT exactly is "Deepin Desktop Environment" I have never heard of it. That does not mean anything but I try to keep up. I'd be curious to check it out as I am growing very disenchanted with KDE 5, thankfully I can still use KDE 4. KDE 5 simply sucks as I can't do things in it that I can do in KDE 4. DDE might be a good alternative to KDE 5. Tell us more and where we can experiment with it.
You can search for deepin 15.5 in youtube and check out what DDE is really like
Checked Arch as I will do for the server flavor. Arch will be what you want it to be from server to multimedia player your choice. I'm not so interested in the ease of installation : I did it once and forgot about it since then. I do one install per machine either Thinkpad P51 or raspberry Pi.
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