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Modest laptop arriving, what new Linux distribution should I try? (wiki.livingcartoon.org)
submitted 3 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Looking for suggestions besides Kubuntu, KDE Neon, Debian, Arch Linux, or Kali. I have previous experience with XFCE, Ratpoison, Openbox, KDE Plasma. Recently started trying out LXQT.

Would be on a modest Dell Latitude with i5, 14" 1080p display with intel graphics, and maybe 16gb ram.

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[–] [S] 1 point 3 months ago (6 children)

You would recommend Alma for a daily driver laptop?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

    I just installed it on a workstation. I'm mostly used to seeing it. Headless but it looks pretty nice with KDE. Alma is a fedora branch and RHEL is generally stable and just works.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    Why not base Fedora? A lot of people are saying that with default gnome. I've never even tried yum, so either would be something new.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Yum/dnf is easy it works just like apt get

    Ie: yum install htop

    As for why Alma, it's what I'm most familiar with coming from a Centos background. And from what I remember and can tell Alma seems much more stable than centos. While still not constantly changing things every 6months like fedora does

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