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		TacticalCoder on May 10, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: OpenBSD Desktop I always begin with a Debian minimal install (on bare metal though, not on Qube): no GUI. Just a minimal install, disk encryption/LUKS and booting to a text console. From there I install X, the awesome WM (a tiling WM) etc. It feels very light (despite the systemd monster of a PID1 and overreach spreading its tentacles everywhere around the system). Needless to say: when I'm on my wife's Ubuntu desktop, it feels very heavy compared to my very minimalistic Debian / Xorg / tiling WM.

einpoklum on May 10, 2024 [–]

Debian can't be mininal these days, because it has the systemd behemoth. Try a minimalistic Devuan instead.

Koshkin on May 10, 2024 | [–]

I would, I just can't get over the name.

fsflover on May 20, 2024 | | [–]

Did you just say that a dictatorship would be better than a democracy?

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