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!

    • mrgreyeyes@feddit.nl
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      4 months ago

      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?

      • Fisch@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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        4 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).

  • yak@feddit.it
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    4 months ago

    If you want Debian, just install Debian.

    Maybe if you’re into wm setups and you’d like to not have to do everything from scratch you can install Bunsenlabs instead.

    It’s just plain Debian with preconfigured Openox, that’s all.

      • pmk@lemmy.sdf.org
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        4 months ago

        There’s a difference between stability and reliability. Stable means that functionality is the same over a period of time, no major changes to how it works. Reliable means that it doesn’t crash all the time. If something crashes the same way for the same reason, it’s stable but not reliable. If something changes a lot but doesn’t crash, it’s reliable but not stable.
        In practice what it comes down to is a choice if you want outdated but known bugs or new surprise bugs.

  • solrize@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I just use Debian and it’s fine. I don’t understand the point of using “Debian-based” instead of just plain Debian. Maybe I’m missing something but we have some Ubuntu machines at work and it’s hard to tell much difference.