Question: I'd like to choose a new distro for my surface.

Although I do shitloads of terminal stuff, I'm an eye candy lover. Debian based please :)

I can deal with problems myself if they occur.

Anyone any ideas? (KDE neon/kubuntu/nitrux/mint have already been tried)

Lubuntu

@xzvf is i3 eye candy worthy?

Lol

@-ANGRY-CLIENT- I personally don't find lubuntu appealing as for eye candy but I could install an alternative DE of course...

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Debian-based.. well, Debian I'd say then. Always go with the motherships (Debian, Arch, Fedora, Gentoo etc) if possible. That way you don't have to deal with extra "features" that daughter distributions sometimes put in. As for desktop environment.. whatever you like best really.

@xzvf 😍 would this work on debian based systems, thougg?

Weird how no one recommended Elementary OS

@cocoa1231 I don't find pantheon much appealing tbh 😅

Xubuntu

@linuxxx yes. I3 = 😍

Honestly I like Ubuntu Budgie, as you can see from the name it is Ubuntu based, but I found it faster and looks better

@linuxxx I agree with Debian (if you want to stay in that "family") and i3. You're going to love it!

By the way, I mentioned it in another thread and thought about you. How come you're not using QubesOS for you main machine? It seems to be made for you, haha

@Jilano ++ for Qubes. It looks quite interesting

@Root It does, doesn't it?! I only tested briefly, but compare to others, it was made with security / privacy in mind. It must takes some time to adapt to its "flow", but seems to be worth the hassle.

If you do some more in-depth testing, I would love to hear your thoughts on it.

Pure Debian ftw and the eyecandy is what you set it up to look like. Default terminal can be made so pretty, but Terminator does a lot more. For more eye candy you can run the cool-retro-term if you like.

@Jilano it is made for me pretty much but the extensive virtualization makes that you need some good hardware to properly run it and I don't have great hardware 😥

@linuxxx Well the minimum requirements aren't that "high", but it sure won't be awesome to use like this. Time to start saving, then! Haha

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Here are the minimum requirements for Qubes OS 4.x:

- 64-bit Intel or AMD processor (x86_64 aka x64 aka AMD64)
- Intel VT-x with EPT or AMD-V with RVI
- Intel VT-d or AMD-Vi
- 4 GB RAM
- 32 GB disk space