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Info 5 Linux desktop environments that make ditching Windows 10 easy

I don't agree with his xfce assessment. Highly customizable? I don't think so. If you use the typical tools, you'll get acceptable customization in the expected areas, but nothing too elaborate or crazy. Plasma's like flying a jet in comparison. If I was gonna knock xfce for anything, it would be the glacial development cycle. That can be good or bad depending on your pov(I like it), but it isn't to everyone's taste. It's also very old fashioned looking. Again, personal preference, and it can look modernish, but it still carries the "classic" appearance.
 
kinda funny that 2 of the most intentionally windows 11 mimicking distros right now use GNOME with extensions
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PS: Itchin' to give it a shot myself.
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definitely worth trying, post in one of the recent threads by Biostud or Indus or make your own for help and suggestions
 
I'm trying to outlive my Cinnamon Virginia/Jammy LTS 4/27.
I've installed the latest Cinnamon Zara/Noble LTS 4/29, on a Celeron circa 2021 and only have problems getting 2 channel sound. I'll wait for teh fix to come down.
 
KDE Plasma? The author should actually try using these distros full-time for a few months apiece before making their pronouncements. I suspect they fired up a VM and played for a bit then wrote an article about it. As opposed to finding out how well some of these distros actually work.

I find it funny how they say that "oh, this one is most like Windows" because I agree whole-heartedly with a news article I read recently in that most desktop OS GUIs share a lot in common with the Windows 95 UI because in many ways its basic elements are very hard to beat. All those UIs look like Windows!

It's even weirder to think that after such a monumental achievement (The basic Win95 UI structure), Microsoft is trying its damnedest to make Windows look more like MacOS *and* to make it less configurable, more like MacOS.
 
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Ordinarily I try to be careful about using MSN stuff. Seems a significant amount involves being generated using A.I. including even the topic to be addressed (hence kookie topics like "what would happen if a needle hit earth at the speed of light").

Suspicious in this case is that the OS distributions listed didnt appear that familiar relative to what I felt were observed historically as discussed in the Anandtech forums.

I see now (and yes, using AI) that the top most popular LINUX distributions listed are:
- Ubuntu,
- Linux Mint,
- Debian,
- Fedora, and
- Arch Linux

...... and Im guessing it's for a good reason. Mainly, that these are the ones that, after actually really using, people prefer.

My very limited past experience with LINUX has been with "PUPPY."
(It is great. Boot from a CD or even a floppy, works resident in ram and in just a couple minutes pretty much a complete novice can be up & running - internet, games and utilities. BTW, it is also useful for shot gunning over such things as damaged files which wont delete in Windows.)

Anyways, my concern is about the direction of current Windows development. I feel that Im seeing many bothersome issues now too numerous to discuss, but they encompass small annoying to extremely large and concerning.

Perhaps resultantly, I am (or at least feel that I am) hearing more voices expressing interest in exploring a Windows alternative and hence, one of the reasons why I posted.
 
good day dear friends, 🙂


Many thanks for this thread - this is a great topic

@mikeymikec - thanks.
KDE Plasma? The author should actually try using these distros full-time for a few months apiece before making their pronouncements. I suspect they fired up a VM and played for a bit then wrote an article about it. As opposed to finding out how well some of these distros actually work
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fully agreed ....


and jup..: @C1
the top most popular LINUX distributions listed are:
- Ubuntu,
- Linux Mint,
- Debian,
- Fedora, and
- Arch Linux
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hmm okay..

well i run on Thinkpad T420 / and T 520 - (with 4 Gigs) the LXQt DE;

and yes some hours ago the new lxqt was released:
Note: I am a big fan of this DE - since it is leightweigth and does not consume too much ressources of my Notebook

btw: see for more: https://lxqt-project.org/ for more:

i am curious bout the next ideas & thoughts that were shared here in this thread


i wish you all a Merry Christmas.. 🤩 🎊


Greetings 🙂
 
I have been recently putting the lightweight DE to the test on a very low spec laptop I picked up to carry around the house.

I wanted a 11-12", but a full laptop not a 2-in-1 or tablet, for cheap. Primary use is email, message boards/reddit, and some youtube and twitch vods

What I found and decided on was this Lenovo 100W line made for students I think. Ebay has them used for like $60-80. It has a lowly 6w AMD 3015e, one of the weakest Zen based cpus ever released. 2 zen1 cores at 1.2ghz boosting to 2.3. Paired with 4GB soldered RAM that the onboard Vega 2 takes 800MB from. so a laughable 3.2GB available RAM. And this machine came preinstalled with Window 10 BTW... can't imagine how terrible that experience was.

I installed Debian 13 with Xfce, and so far I have enough RAM to do what I want. It's the CPU that struggles watching 1080p video, especially on twitch which has a very heavy desktop site for this CPU.
AI actually helped me write a userscript that auto opens twitch VOD links in the embedded player which helped a lot.

I was considering if I would get much more out of switching to LXQt or even trying a WM like Openbox.

It's been fun though working to optimize the usable experience with this ultra low spec device.
 
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