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Any good Debian-based OS for a laptop? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm planning to put Debian-based operating system onto my Surface Laptop Gen 1, following the guide (linux-surface). Any good Debian-based Linux recommendations? For now I'm considering AntiX (lightweight debian) and normal Debian.

P.S. I’ve installed pure Debian, as everyone suggests. Thanks for advice!

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What about something novel, like installing actual Debian?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Will work fine indeed. Only I always have some issues getting the touchscreen working seamlessly. Is there a window manager on Debian who does it well?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I've used both KDE Plasma and GNOME on my Laptop with a touch screen and both worked well. GNOME is better with touch screens in general but that's just because of the gestures and GTK apps working better with touch screens (e.g. you can always scroll by swiping up or down, not sure if that's the same in QT apps).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I don't have a touchscreen, so I have no lived experience, but this should get you started at least:

https://wiki.debian.org/TabletAndTouchScreen