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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).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I have a 'spare' Dell Latitude 7390 (Core i5 9gb ) on this machine. My production machine runs Debian with KDE.

What might be an interesting distro for me to try out on my spare machine?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

just how “different from Debian” do you want to go?

staying mainstream – EndeavourOS or Fedora will give you a similar experience, nothing too scary
try out one of the immutable options – NixOS, Fedora Silverblue, Guix, VanillaOS
something a little more trimmed down – Void, Alpine, Slackware
play with the source – Gentoo
do a little learning – Linux From Scratch

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@cerement What about Arch?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

(covered by EndeavourOS)