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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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what's a normie KDE distro? (lemmy.ml)

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

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Looking for a normie KDE distro that works out of the box and is stable without issues.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You have to reinstall mxlinux every time a new debian version comes out. Not really "normie" IMHO.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do you really have to reinstall from scratch or is it sufficient to update the sources.list to the new Debian release and perform dist-upgrade like for Debian?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I read their documentation yesterday, and it strongly advised a complete reinstall. While they do have a tool that eases the process of storing your setup and then recovering it on top of a new install, it's still significantly more complicated than just 'sudo apt upgrade'.