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    They say debian is free and has its promise, but Arch has like 2-4 maintainers?

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    [–] Bluewing@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

    Much depends on what you want out of life. Your choices are about as far apart in philosophy as you can get.

    Do you wear tweed or have a sport coat with elbow patches? If so, then Debian is as staid and stable as you are. Slowly evolving and the mother of many other distros. Or do you have dyed hair and piercings? Do you live in your mother's basement? Arch might be a great fit for you. Arch is often wild and barely house broken and will pee on your floor as soon as it can. It can be tamed if kept under tight control. But it's a wild ride on the edge if you let it.

    There is a middle ground that can draw from both worlds. Ubuntu and Fedora and SuSe are that middle ground. If this is your first time sailing the Sea of Distros, then somewhere in this middle is perhaps the best place to start.

    [–] khanh@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 months ago

    free as in free beer: literally any distro other than winux/linuxfx/wubuntu free as in libre: trisquel

    [–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

    What do you mean by free? Why did only those two make your list?

    In general, I recommend Fedora KDE Spin (or Fedora Kinoite if you know what containers are)

    For your question, I would go for debian. But the answer also depends on your use-case. Software dev? CLI user? Gamer?

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    [–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 1 points 4 months ago

    Use FreeBSD. It literally has FREE in the name.

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