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My actual choices are: Debian for servers and tinkering hardware (including derivatives such as Armbian on non x86 embedded boards), Alpine on small servers and
by squarefoot 3y ago
My actual choices are: Debian for servers and tinkering hardware (including derivatives such as Armbian on non x86 embedded boards), Alpine on small servers and very small/older hardware and Manjaro on my laptops and PCs that I convert to Linux for other people, relatives etc. So far I've been very happy with these three choices, and Manjaro helped a lot to introduce Linux to non tech people.
- barbariangrunge 3y agoWhy manjaro for those people? What desktop environment?
- squarefoot 3y agoMany of them were/are old people who were used to Windows XP or 7, rarely 8 and beyond, therefore I thought that moving to a XFCE desktop would have been less traumatic for them, and in the end it worked well. XFCE to me is the right balance of features and snappiness, that's the one I use on all my non CLI machines, although I prefer Debian on my main one, but Debian's XFCE defaults on ugly+impractical settings that would need too much work to repeat at each install. I also want to give them a rolling distro, which on Debian can be risky.